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Activision Blizzard’s Starcraft II is celebrating a significant victory in the UK Charts this week – but that’s not the only achievement the game is enjoying this week. GfK Chart-Track has confirmed that in just five days on the shelves Starcraft II has already sold more copies than the first …

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has debuted at No.1 in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Charts. The Blizzard RTS was released last Tuesday, giving it a full week of sales under its belt to knock Toy Story 3, Red Dead Redemption and Dance on Broadway down one place each. …

Just days after the US Government deemed the ‘jailbreaking’ of mobile handsets to be legal, the first hack for the iPhone 4 has gone live. What will be more worrying for Apple, however, is the ease with which the new hack can be applied. Users don’t even need access to …

Respawn chiefs to sit on a â??Building Blockbustersâ?? panel at the US-based event

Whiteout to focus on digital markets

In response to MCV’s news yesterday that many companies are continuing to sell R4DS and other DS piracy devices despite the recent court ruling that illegalised the activity, Nintendo has issued a warning to the offending retailers. The message is the same to companies big and small, these activities are …

Tech overload had almost killed the crisis-hit project

Despite this week’s ruling that saw the illegalisation of nearly all devices aimed at allowing the running of homebrew and pirated games on the Nintendo DS, MCV has confirmed that some outlets are still selling the accessories. Though many of the links that come up in a Google search for …

Before he left the games division of LucasFilm, Blackman told Develop of the Force Unleashed dev nightmare

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts that tablet computers were a "job one urgency" for the company. Despite the company recently becoming a licensee of CPU-designer outfit ARM, Ballmer said that the company is focusing on tablet computers based on Intel CPUs running the Windows 7 operating system. The …