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Best Buy’s UK online store goes live tomorrow at www.bestbuy.co.uk. The site will sell all products available in stores, with free delivery offered. However, the games section is managed by online specialist, The Hut Group. Users will be able to post their own video reviews, there will be a forum …

Realtime Distribution will now handle products for UK-based peripherals specialist Venom. The deal represents Realtime’s continued push into the console sector. The company will distribute the majority of Venom’s console portfolio, including the VX Comms headset range, charging stations for 360, PS3, Wii, DSi and PlayStation Move, Wii Remote and …

Develop issue 111 explores why Canada is capturing British talent

Thousands of UK developers have already made the move to Canada. Will you be next?

Motion control tech to use minimal amount of 360 processing

Consumers can now buy their games while topping up for fuel, picking up the morning paper and even buying a shrubbery, under a new initiative by Bright Red Entertainment. The distributor has launched its new pallet concept Game Depot into non-traditional retail, such as petrol stations, garden centres and newsagents. …

Games Investor Consulting director Rick Gibson on the RTW aftermath

The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment has announced that three new firms have signed up for membership. The latest companies to sign up with the games trade body are Target Media and the University of Abertay Dundee and international games publisher Atari. Target Media is a UK media agency that …

Moral panics are nothing new, but taking them to the Supreme Court in 2010 is madness

Co-founder Dave Perry tells MCV of possible new beta strategy ahead of London Games Conference