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The staff at GAME in Guildford will serve a rather surprising customer on Friday, October 29th. They may not know who he is, but you will. It’s development legend Peter Molyneux, and he is there to buy his own video game, Fable III. Molyneux performs this ritual every time one …

It topped the charts and has sold 60,000 units since the summer. A good game from Polish outfit City Interactive? Absolutely. But much praise should go to Mastertronic, which handled sales and performed a sales miracle. Mastertronic’s prize? City last week barked publicly, and unexpectedly, that it wants to bring …

Surprise hits are increasingly rare these days, so MCV has enjoyed covering the success of Sniper: Ghost Warrior on PC and Xbox 360. It topped the charts and has sold 60,000 units since the summer. A good game from Polish outfit City Interactive? Absolutely. But much praise should go to …

The man who founded Second Life back in 1999 will retire from his short-lived role as interim CEO, despite the search for a permanent replacement not having concluded. Philip Rosedale said in a statement the firm was ready to start the search for a new CEO”. He confirmed he would …

Platform holders’ desire to gain complete control of the software retail chain will mean that the next generation of home consoles will not include any capacity for digital media, developer Blitz Games Studios has stated. Let’s be honest, a lot of us have got smart phones,” CEO Philip Oliver told …

Publisher THQ has announced a brand new Kinect IP – Fantastic Pets, which is being develop by Blitz Games. It’s the first augmented reality game scheduled for release on the device and will see players interacting with digital animals on-screen in much the same way as is seen in Sony’s …

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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