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It’s a problem that has caused the DS market to collapse” and seen software sales drop by 50 per cent in Europe over recent months, but one publisher reckons Nintendo will finally thwart the pirates with its upcoming 3DS handheld. What excites me even more than 3DS games is that …

UPDATE: An official spokesperson from the US GameStop office has contacted MCV with the following statement: These comments from an unnamed and unknown person claiming to be a GameStop employee are inaccurate. Pre-owned is the cornerstone of our business and, as you say, a key driving force for us. Both …

Develop 2010: Simon Oliver on the developer/publisher relationship

Develop 2010: ...and they are great for experimental business structures, claims Gobion Rowlands

Develop 2010: Attendees bemused by reasons why the popular PSN title fell at early hurdles

Apple has removed a number of threads containing complaints about the iPhone 4 from its comment boards. According to Mac User, the vendor deleted comments that referred to an unfavourable review by Consumer Reports, the US equivalent to Which?. The referred article was critical of the widely reported antenna problems …

Develop 2010: Yet games such as Uno and Sudoku cover over 30 per cent of the digital store

Though opinion on the likely success or otherwise of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect camera remains divided, Caris & Co analyst Sandeep Aggarwal believes the camera could make as much as $1bn for the company in its first year on the market. Kinect could generate $2bn in incremental consumer spending on …

Sony’s ModNation Racers will receive a downloadable update that makes the game more accessible to casual gamers. A forthcoming patch for the game will introduce a casual career mode that pits players against less aggressive computer-controlled opponents. The new mode was announaced as part of the regular ModNation Monday post …

The ever-increasing number of Valve games made playable on Mac has been bolstered by another new title – Day of Defeat Source. Players who already own the PC game can download the Mac version for free via digital game service Steam. Developer Valve has also enabled cross-platform multiplayer which means …