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In a surprise move, online retail giant Amazon has begun offering groceries on its website. The move is bizarrely reminiscent of an April Fools’ story posted by MCV earlier in the year where we joked that GAME was breaking into the fruit and veg market in an effort to fight …

EA has announced a new downloadable Dead Space game that will bridge the gap between the 2008 original and next year’s Dead Space 2. Dead Space Ignition will be available on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network this autumn, and challenges players to survive the initial Necromorph outbreak. It …

Sony explains how it pulled off a PS3 rescue operation with the help of, who else, the developers

Delegates set to benefit from iPhone, iPad and Blackberry interactive guide

WWS boss Yoshida admits PS3 game development was challenging, but insists Sony has turned a corner

Cameron asked in commons why the initiative was â??poorly targetedâ??

Twenty jobs gone at the Take-Two-owned outfit

Successors to the Wii and Xbox 360 are more likely to arrive before the release of the PlayStation 4, according to a top Sony exec. Looking from the outside, it was Microsoft that released the first of this generation of consoles. Naturally, in my opinion, Microsoft will make the first …

The UK video games industry has already leapt into action following news that the responsibility for to Government’s Change4Life campaign is to be handed over to the private companies that until now part-funded it. A large drive to cut Government spending costs has seen all state funding of the ad …

Rockstar has announced it will release a series of downloadable content packs for Red Dead Redemption. The four packs will be released on both PSN and Xbox Live over the next few months, starting with the Legends and Killers Pack next month. Also named was the Liars and Cheats Pack, …