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THQ says the runaway success of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption’s damaged sales of its brawler UFC 2010. The 2009 edition of UFC was a smash hit, debuting at the top of the All Formats Charts and even receiving a nomination for Sales Triumph in this year’s MCV Awards. So expectations were high …

Michael Jackson: The Experience will be Ubisoft’s latest million-selling sensation, the publisher has told MCV. Speaking in an exclusive interview with MCV, UK MD Rob Cooper says the firm was approached by Michael Jackson himself – long before his death – to create a game based on his iconic dance …

Academic-focused event ProtoTeach to run alongside ProtoPlay

According to latest ABC figures, ToyNews published an average of 6,043 copies every month between July 1st 2009 and June 30th 2010. Nearest rival Toys n Playthings published only 5,215 copies per month during the same period. This means that the ToyNews monthly circulation is nearly 16 per cent higher …

The bad news just keeps coming for Apple. The US Government has ruled that owners of the iPhone are legally able to ‘jailbreak’ their phones, a process that allows then to run unvalidated code of the machines. Owners usually jailbreak iPhones so to run programs not obtained via iTunes. This …

Luxury hardback now rarer than a collectorâ??s item as publishing plans are abandoned

Publisher EA has confirmed that the Wii iteration of the upcoming FIFA 11 will include a five vs five player street football mode. Featuring a number of the world’s top global footballing superstars sporting a range of urban streetwear as opposed to their traditional team kits. Players can use the …

Microsoft European developer account manager Ben Board poses the ultimate question

12 years on from the release of its incredibly popular predecessor, Activision Blizzard has finally released the hugely anticipated PC and Mac strategy game Starcraft II. Not wanting to force fans to wait (and quite possibly not wanting to inviate pirates to release the game illegally online) Blizzard has made …

Yoostar boss Greg Fischbach has told MCV he is looking for the industry’s ‘next Rod Cousens’. Games veteran Fischbach – who helped set up Activision Europe and Acclaim – is looking for an exec to head-up Yoostar’s new UK office. He said: We’re looking for a real generalist – a …