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Speaking to analysts yesterday, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata admitted one curious reason for the comparatively high price of the Nintendo DS handheld – the enthusiasm with which it was greeted Andriasang says Iwata told the audience that the price was set by considering a number of factors, including reactions to …

And at times that means that when GAME falls on ill fortunes – as it occassionaly has given its reliance on the up-and-down generational cycle – that the justification for a bumpy ride sounds a bit ‘dog ate my homework’. Ultimately, GAME always ends up the victim of the market, …

Video games retailer GAME has a two-pronged plan to help grow its business, CEO Ian Shepherd told MCV. The first is the slow morphing of the business into a ‘multi-channel’ one with a much stronger online business that accounts for more than just a tiny two per cent of its …

GAME has both the most envied and reviled position in the UK games industry. As the ward of the two goliath High Street games brands, it isn’t just at the coalface of games retail – it is the coalface. When a new console arrives and the industry takes off, GAME …

The man at the centre of the Minecraft phenomenon has declined job offers at Valve and Bungie, opting instead to open his own independent development studio. Swedish programmer Markus Persson, whose solo effort Minecraft is apparently returning up to $350,000, is now looking to form a new start-up venture. It’s …

One of the most recognisable and respected writers in global games journalism has confirmed that is to leave the industry as of today. Kieron Gillen is one of the founders of popular PC games site Rock Paper Shotgun. His work has also appeared on the likes of Edge, Eurogamer, PC …

Newcastle studio Eutechnyx on how itâ??s breathing new life into an American institution, NASCAR

Eutechnyx COO Darren Jobling aims to revive the dormant NASCAR brand

The man who commissioned the Sumo-made Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is to depart the BBC. Simon Nelson has worked at the BBC for 14 years, predominantly at BBC Radio, where he introduced iPlayer-forerunner Radio Player. In recent years his role over interactive widened to include all sorts of media, …

Microsoft’s innovative controllerless peripheral, Kinect, has not been downgraded during its evolution from concept to final product, says an exec at UK studio Rare. In fact, Nick Burton believes Kinect has closely followed a survival-of-the-fittest principal; dropping less desired features and improving its more important ones. Kinect’s tech has certainly …