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Sales for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year, a period ending September 30th, came to €260m – up 56.7% (or 46.0% taking into account exchange rate variance) on the €166m recorded for the same period last year. Gross profit stood at €146.2m. Losses did increase overall – …

Anaheim musical instrument trade show broadens reach with special introductory offer

David Perry, one of the game industry’s longest-serving contributors and co-founder of cloud gaming service Gaikai, is returning to his roots in game design. The veteran developer, who began his career in the early ‘80s, is currently building an iPad game along with a European indie studio. Perry told Develop …

Nintendo has admitted that it will fall far short of selling the 1m units it had predicted for September’s Wii release Metroid: Other M. The game has a respectable Metacritic average of 79 per cent and managed to finish in the September Top Ten in the US. However, despite managing …

Big name social games studio to release titles on US firmâ??s web platforms

Sales double in 2010 as rival engine firms slide

Season-specific content high on publishers' digital release plans

Andrew Thompson, the head of games at supermarket Asda, has told MCV that increasing competition in the games sector forced it to adopt a pre-owned games strategy. Tesco, Argos and Best Buy all let customers trade in against anything in store. And he adds that publisher’s do understand the retailer’s …

Retail’s defence of pre-owned is a simple one.Consumers trade in their games so they can buy new ones. It helps inflate sales of newly released titles, and the specialist retailers all have stats to back up this claim, too. But unfortunately that argument has broken down now the likes of …

Microsoft has revealed details of its first add-on pack for Xbox 360 exclusive Fable III. Owners of the action RPG will be able to purchase the Understone Quest Pack for 400 Microsoft Points (around 4) on November 23rd. The DLC includes three quests that take place in a secret town …