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A 13 per cent year-on-year increase in traffic is the headline figure to emerge from Future Publishing’s H2 fiscal results. The media company reported a profit of 3.6m for the period – 13 per cent up on the same period the year before. However, revenues fell seven per cent in …

A pleasingly positive report on Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption in The Daily Mail has pegged the development budget of the game at up to $100m”. If true, the figure places the title in contention to be the most expensive game ever produced. A report earlier this year named Grand Theft …

Truth or Lies – an upcoming casual multiplayer game that uses a microphone to allegedly tell if players are lying – has been announced by THQ. The game allows up to eight users to take part in a roundtable-style experience, each answering a range of questions in turn. It uses …

Title said will be released as the 2012 Olympic Games launches

The latest instalment in one of the world’s largest RPG series has finally been given a UK release date. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is the first in the series to be released exclusively on a handheld, and will hit DS on July 23rd. It’s scheduled to …

PopCap games shown running on Chrome Web Store

Gamebryo Engine licensed by Seoul-based Gorilla Banana Entertainment

The floodgates have well and truly opened – THQ has become the latest publisher to offer free DLC as an incentive for buying its games brand new. The publisher has confirmed that new copies of upcoming fighter UFC Undisputed 2010 will, much like EA’s FIFA 2011, only be playable online …

New York-based outfit says a UK base is â??absolutely something weâ??re looking atâ??

Richard Branson will use next month’s E3 in Los Angeles to unveil Virgin’s return to the video games business. MCV believes that a launch event is being planned, with Branson himself in attendance. This is a major coup for the US trade show, but also signals the return of one …