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Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops could stand to benefit the successful launch of Halo: Reach in the long run. That’s according to Lazard Capital’s Colin Sebastien. The analyst claims the early sales figures for Microsoft’s latest shooter suggest strength for the core market, which bodes well for similar titles …

Big online portals at work with cloud-based service

Potential partners reluctant to buy the studio; redundancies made; APB bid to relaunch

Platform holder Microsoft has claimed that Xbox 360’s ongoing sales gains have heralded a mid-generation leadership change” that puts its console at the front of the pack. Analysts are telling us that we’ve broken all their models,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. They say there’s never been …

505 Games has announced Cooking Mama World: Babysitting Mama for the Wii. The game allows young girls to care for a child – with a twist. Babysitting Mama comes bundled with a life-sized baby doll peripheral that houses the Wii Remote. Players have to perform all the tasks expected of …

Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed. Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3m units this holiday,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. Our key indicators are feedback from …

Codemasters’ racer Grid will debit as a coin-op arcade game this autumn. Via a deal with Sega Amusements, the UK publisher has developed a two-man cabinet of the game. The content has been developed at Codemasters Studios. Grid won a BAFTA for best sports game in 2009. Codemasters says this …

Long-running UK television soap Coronation Street is to become the first such programme to get its own dedicated social network game. Corrie Nation is to initially run on Facebook and ITV.com, and has been created in conjunction with the television show’s production team. After the November 1st launch, other platforms …

Adam Davis – Trading Director, GAME Our stores are all geared up for the launch of PlayStation Move, and customer excitement is increasing. Lots of our teams have played and enjoyed it already, and this is being passed on when they talk to our customers.As always with a big new …

With a wide assorted of supported titles at launch and plenty more in the pipeline, Move has the ability to please those core fans as well as appeal to this new social gaming audience But is going after two audiences a risky strategy? Could Move become a jack-of-all-trades master of …