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Square Enix has announced that the former chief marketing officer for Microsoft’s Consumer and Online UK division Mike Fischer has become its new president and CEO of its US division. He replaces the outgoing John Yamamoto who took charge of US operations in 2007, preceding the restructure that accompanied the …

In what could possibly be the most outrageous piece of video games reporting in a national UK paper, The Daily Star has today expressed its fury” at news that a Raoul Moat version of Grand Theft Auto is in production. Apparently gaming websites” (though obviously not the ones we read) …

Wii and DS platform holder Nintendo is celebrating a significant legal victory in the Netherlands after 11 retailers were convicted of acting unlawfully by importing and selling DS R4 cards and Wii mod chips. The retailers had claimed that Nintendo’s objections were an act of unfair competition – a claim …

Microsoft is asking Gears of Wars fans to decide the fate of new rookie character Clayton Carmine in the upcoming Gears of War 3. Kicking off on July 29th, two t-shirts will be released on the Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace – one with ‘Save Carmine’ written across it and one …

Is that… Ian Livingstone calling Peter Molyneux a dog-killer? Is that… Mark Rein in the bath? Is that an eight-minute symphony of foul-mouthed game developers? Yes, yes, and oh Christ yes. Following our biggest ever awards bash, Develop has been flooded with requests to show the Develop Awards video once …

Statistics from American sales analyst NPD claims that the boxed PC games market just managed to out-value digital sales in the US in 2009. It suggests that boxed sales accounted for a total of 23.5m units throughout the year. In comparison, digital sales reached 21.3m units. However, retail sales were …

Toys, books and clothes will accompany the blockbuster launch of Star Wars: Force Unleashed II on October 29th. LucasArts is treating the upcoming sequel as a true ‘event launch’ similar to a Star Wars movie. The firm adopted a similar tactic for the first Force Unleashed, which went on to sell …

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Maybe it was the World Cup, the hot weather or increased economic uncertaintly, but it was a tough month for the UK video games market – with sales down around 23 per cent compared to June 2009. But it wasn’t all bad news. Red Dead Redemption enjoyed another month at …

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