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The Hut Group has announced it has acquired online health and beauty specialist, the Lookfantastic Group. The acquisition cost 19.4m and will see Lookfantastic’s online stores such as lookfantastic.com, lookmantastic.com and beautysleuth.co.uk integrated into The Hut’s extensive portfolio. As such, the 1m+ predominantly female customer base that Lookfantastic has established …

Movie rental service LoveFilm has arrived on PS3 today with users able to stream TV episodes and movies from their console. The firm has also partnered with Push Button who will bring the service to other digital platforms across the world. The developer previously brought LoveFilm on-demand to Sony Bravia …

EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has predicted that the global install base of the PS3 will overtake Xbox 360 by the end of 2012. Using a similar method to that used by MCV at the end of October when we made the exact same prediction, Divnich points out that since May …

Angry Birds studio said to be targeting 100 staff mark in near future

Ignitionâ??s cancelled horror/action FPS reportedly cost over $20m

Frontier Developments boss reiterates lack of Lionhead work in upcoming title

All sports content to be made through a single studio in efficiency savings

Turbulenz Limited game creation and publishing platform receives investor support

With this year’s Call of Duty now out in the wild, reports are once again predicting that the next iteration of the franchise will be set in the future. Industry sources say Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty will be set in the future and feature, for lack of a better term, …

After all the talk and all the hype, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect is finally on sale in the UK. Following the arrival of Sony’s Move in the UK in September, the launch of Kinect today means that the motion control revolution started by Nintendo last decade has now finally spread …