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The Black Ops boom has put UK games retail back on track after months of facing year-on-year market decline. The FPS made over 80m in the UK last week, and sold over 2m units in five days – helping the High Street towards its biggest week for games ever: 113m …

COO Greg Robinson on the mobile outfit's Game A Day initiative

Cambridge-based firm sends team northwards in the wake of Bizarre troubles

Perhaps the warning from Microsoft’s Don Mattrick wasn’t just hyperbole – GameStop also reckons that motion controllers are going to sell out this Christmas. In fact the global games retail giant says both Microsoft Kinect and Sony’s Move will see tight supply as seasonal spending ramps up. Speaking in the …

Never one to be afraid of making bold comments, former Sony Computer Entertainment president David Reeves has made his most startling prediction yet – that platform holders such as Sony and Microsoft could co-develop a console within the next decade. When you’re on the first-party side, you realise how really, …

Their name may be based on a defunct practice, but their ideas are cutting edge

Casual games giant Zynga has revealed that it is to launch a public beta for its brand new title CityVille in the coming weeks”.Gamasutra reports that the game will be localised in five different languages – English, German, Italian, Spanish and French. The studio promises that the game will be …

UK technology firm's new label NaturalMotion Games working on Backbreaker 2 and Jenga

Star Wars: Check. Batman: Check. Indiana Jones: Check. Harry Potter: Check. Pirates of the Caribbean: why not? Yep, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films will be the next to receive the LEGO treatment, courtesy of UK developer TT Games. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game will be published …

GameStop has revealed that sales of pre-owned game products accounted for 47.4 per cent of the company’s profit for the three months ending October 2010. In total pre-owned was worth $528.m, with profit of $250.2m. By comparison profit from new games reached $182.4m (21.7 per cent of the quarter’s total) …