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Publisher dominates unit sales chart as games go £0.99

As predicted by MCV, UK online retailers are telling customers to buy their games today or they won’t get them in time for Christmas. GAME has pushed forward its last order date to today (Friday, December 17th). Consumers must order before 8pm tonight to guarantee delivery before Christmas. This affects …

Do you enjoy your job? Thinking of changing sectors, or have you just done so? If so, we want to hear your story as part of our annual salary survey. MCV is asking for industry members to tell us about their experiences of moving around the games industry over the …

EA Mobile has dropped the price of the majority of its iPhone games range to $0.99 (59p). The news comes following dozens of big games hitting the App Store at once, aiming for chart position in the run-up to Christmas. The results can be seen in the US App Store …

A breakthrough in facial animation right before your eyes

Microsoft has announced a raft of content that will be made available on Xbox Live over the Christmas holidays. The platform holder will be adding more 2010 hits to its Games On Demand service, starting with Red Dead Redemption and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands on December 12st. Also …

Titan is not just the name of Blizzard’s latest mystery title – it’s also the name of what the developer has tantalisingly called a "next-gen MMO". "The media is not supposed to know anything about that. It’s our next-gen MMO project," Blizzard’s senior VP Frank Pearce told Destructoid. "We’ve only …

EA boss John Riccitiello reckons Nintendo needs to take a leaf out of Apple’s book when it comes to third-party support. The publisher’s CEO cited the iPad manufacturer as a prime example of how a platform holder should help external publishers and claimed Nintendo is too focused on its own …

Microsoft could soon be the first company to have a social game running, in real-time, inside a search engine. The company’s Bing website will soon host the social game Happy Island, and Microsoft thinks this will show it is innovating within the sector. We believe this launch brings several important …

Developer BioWare has confirmed that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 will use the engine built for the upcoming Mass Effect 3. "One of the first things you’re going to see is improved graphics," producer Jesse Houston said on the BioWare podcast, as reported by 1UP. "We actually created …