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Asda has declared Call of Duty: Black Ops will be its biggest games launch of all time. The supermarket claims it has an unprecedented level of stock for the imminent FPS, which it says far outstrips that of any previously released video game. We are putting more stock into store …

MIGS 2010: Former VP of Microsoft Game Group talks the challenge of social game development

MIGS 2010: Imposed creative restrictions could save the industry from boring games, claims Xbox co-creator

The Symbian Foundation has announced plans to "transition the role of the non-profit organisation". Which means… what? According to its announcement, the Foundation will become "a legal entity responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property, such as the Symbian trademark". That means Nokia will take on development of the …

The action game project took the risky route of self-funding after Activision snub

Swedish and Swiss firms join forces to tackle online racing market

â??The UK has something we donâ??t â?? a history' says Wet developer boss

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has sold $1.3 billion of shares in the firm, a move he says should not be construed as a lack of faith in the software giant. Ballmer claims the move, which is his first sale of Microsoft stock in seven years, is about diversifying his …

ZeniMax owned publisher Bethesda has confirmed that it has now shipped five million copies of recent post-apocalyptic Xbox 360, PS3 and PC hit Fallout: New Vegas. Add to this what Bethesda describes as heavy volumes” of digital downloads and the game has already grossed in excess of $300m at retail. …

The next instalment in the Metal Gear Solid series on consoles is unlikely to be released until 2012, according to online reports. Kotaku claims that Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which is set some time between the events of the second and fourth instalments in the series, will not make it …