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Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is today celebrating its second week at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it successfully fends off the advances of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which claim second and third place …

After the most traumatic year in the chain’s history, rental and entertainment retailer Blockbuster is bursting back into life in the US with its first nationwide advertising campaign since 2007. In September of this year Blockbuster’s long and drawn out decent into bankruptcy was finally confirmed. The deal it eventually …

The CEO of Activision’s parent company Vivendi has stated that in Call of Duty: Black Ops, Treyarch has made a better game than Infinity Ward ever has. We have broken our own record. I am very, very pleased,” Jean-Bernard Lvy told investors at a Morgan Stanley conference this week, as …

Xaitment CEO Andreas Gerber discusses the latest iteration of its pathfinding tech

Three weeks ago first images leaked (pictured) of what gadget blog Engadget said was definitely the ‘PlayStation Phone’. Sony – despite a momentary off-message flap saying the images were fake – has remained tight-lipped about their veracity. Until now, that is. The CEO of Sony Ericsson – Sony’s joint venture …

Sony is in talks with Channel Five to add the UK broadcasters on-demand content to PS3. According to Media Week, the two are already in discussions to add Demand Five to the PS3 dashboard. You can already view the site through the console’s web browser, but it seems the two …

Just two hours after parts of the internet went into meltdown amid claims of a colossal, time-consuming mandatory installation for next week’s racer Gran Turismo 5, Sony has already extinguished the fire. At lunchtime today reports emerged claiming that the game would require a compulsory installation of 6.4GB. More so, …

US outfit Seven45 says cuts are â??cyclicalâ??; one source claims 30 staff gone

Non-EU worker restrictions â??will limit studio staff optionsâ??

Italian conference's organisers detail expanded sessions list