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Apple has announced that its App Store has now passed the seven billion downloads milestone, up from 6.5 billion at the start of September. That means the store is currently doing 10 million downloads every day – more than Android Market, BlackBerry App World and Android Market combined. (There’s some …

Social add-on for apps may have survived Appleâ??s Game Center push

Peter Molyneux is a surprisingly critical man. Fable II is a great game, it has sold over 3.5 million units at retail and has a Metacritic score of 89. But during an interview with MCV, Molyneux highlights elements of it as ‘crap’, ‘gimmicky,’ and ‘a terrible crime’. And he invites …

Microsoft development legend yearns to make a 5m+ seller and join the â??triple-A' elite

One of the founders of reviews aggregation site Metacritic has told MCV that he wants games reviews to progress to the stage where they can themselves be considered as pieces of art. I can only hope that with the decline in the number and influence of traditional media outlets there …

Founded in 2001 by siblings Marc Doyle and Julie Roberts with friend Jason Dietz, review aggregation site Metacritic had until recently remained on largely the same technology and design template. That alone is a testament to its creators’ forward thinking vision; almost a decade after inception, Metacritic in its original …

Having arrived on retail shelves on Blu-ray in April of this year, Sony has confirmed that its PS3 God of War: Collection will now be released digitally on PSN. The retail version of the SKU included re-workings of PS2 hits God of War and God of War 2, both with …

Inafune, Kojima, Howard and Nagoshi pay tribute to the Mario man

Paul Wedgwood pulls no punches in his assessment of British game development

In a period of falling sales and store closures, the story of Grainger Games is a refreshing one. The retail chain – which began as a market stall on Newcastle’s Grainger Arcade in 1997 – opened its 40th store in Liverpool earlier this month. It means the Northern chain has …