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Finnish developer Angry Birds has revealed that Angry Birds Halloween, the latest version of its popular mobile game, has sold 1m copies on the Apple App Store after just six days on the market. The download features 45 new levels and is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. …

FIFA 11 was on sale for jsut 48 hours of September yet still managed to be the biggest selling video game of the month in the UK. 738,839 copies of the football title were shifted over the two days, generating over 26 million, making it FIFA’s most successful opening weekend …

Prime Minister asked again to explain the Tories' u-turn

SOFTWARE MARKET SHARE BY COMPANY – Units(last month in brackets) 1. (1) EA – 25.0%2. (9) Microsoft – 13.7%3. (2) Ubisoft – 8.3%4. (3) Nintendo – 7.4%5. (15) Codemasters – 6.9%6. (4) Take-Two – 5.7%7. (5) Activsion – 4.1%8. (17) Capcom – 3.9%9. (11) Sony – 3.1%10. (8) Square Enix – …

Ed fries, the man central to Microsoft’s record-breaking $375 million acquisition of Rare, revealed to Develop that Bobby Kotick’s Activision made an princely offer for the GoldenEye studio – one that Rare was eager to sign. There was a bit of a bidding war between us [Microsoft] and Activision – …

I feel like a teenager again. I’m not bouncing with hormones of course, but am rattled by uncertainty as to what the future will bring. As a consultant it would be sensible to feign deep knowledge of the road ahead, but I’d be lying if I said I could quantify …

James Gwertzman talks about PopCapâ??s wild card in their plan to capture the Korean market

Call of Duty: Black Ops will not outshine the record-breaking performance of its predecessor Modern Warfare 2, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. Last month Activision’s general manager for Call of Duty in Europe Michal Sportouch told MCV: We’ve a fantastic game and a fantastic marketing campaign so our …

The makers of popular file-sharing service LimeWire have been forced by a US federal court to shut down its peer-to-peer software. LimeWire is one of the largest sources of illegal free music downloads on the internet and is especially popular in the US. However, a notice on the LimeWire website …

UK developer was ready to join Bobby Kotickâ??s third-party empire