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Games will receive more floor space at Sainsbury’s over the next year after significantly driving both sales and footfall in 2009. The supermarket enjoyed its fifth consecutive year of like-for-like growth in the entertainment sector, as well as a 17.5 per cent rise in profit. Non-food MD Luke Jensen announced …

Rumours suggest the firm has far outplayed analyst expectations

It’s official: specialist games retail is in decline. According to MCV research, the number of leading game specialists has reduced by around 116 stores year-on-year. Findings come from MCV’s 2010 guide to games retail (find more on page 16) which covers all the latest movements from the top 12 High …

Microsoft has scored its first Gfk Chart-Track No.1 of the year with Crackdown 2. The open-world action title is the fifteenth No.1 of the year, and knocks LEGO Harry Potter from the top spot. Warner’s family title now sits in No.2, with Red Dead Redemption following close behind. Ubisoft has …

Anonymous sources claim the search engine giant will soon launch an ambitious new games division

3D may be the industry buzzword of 2010, but did you know a major proportion of the UK population can’t even see it? Over six million British consumers have poor binocular vision, which means they either cannot see or have difficulty seeing the effects on 3DS or in movies such …

New string of accusations fired at Activision in ongoing lawsuit

The company behind the world’s biggest Facebook games will be the cornerstone of Google Games when it launches later this year, claims TechCrunch. The technology website claims Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in Zynga to help launch its social games service – which the search giant …

Publisher Namco Bandai has slapped an October 8th European release date for upcoming action title Enslaved. The game, which will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360, is being developed by Ninja Theory – the studio behind PS3 launch title Heavenly Sword. It’s is being co-directed by Lord of the …

3D TV is set to take off in such a major way that we could see 3D compatible sets in every home in the UK by 2013 – that’s the claim of French publisher Ubisoft. The somewhat surprising assertion flies in the face of many commentators who feel that both …