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World Cup fever will provide retailers with a sales boost this summer with Exspect’s range of England gaming accessories. The company has scored rights to England’s official branding after reaching a partnership with Digital Goals. Exspect will release a wave of ‘three lions’ skins hit retail for the Nintendo DSi, …

LittleBigPlanet 2 will offer limited support for the PlayStation Move controller at launch with fuller, expanded support planned for later down the line. We’re really excited by giving the Move controller to the community,” Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healy told VG247. We’re totally going to go to town on supporting …

Nintendo president outlines functions to defend device from accusations of negative health effects

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High Street games retailer GAME has responded to claims made by an employee who established a Facebook group for all staff affected by the recent reduction in working hours for many of the chain’s UK workers. GAME confirmed last month that, following a period of internal review, it has reduced …

Group headed up by former Ninety Nine Knights project lead

After its planed reveal for today was scuppered by internet leaks over the weekend, Sony’s LittleBigPlanet 2 has at last been officially unveiled. Whereas the first game saw users designing individual levels within the title’s platform-based games universe, LBP2 gives users a whole new level of creative freedom and the …

Sales of brand new boxed games on the High Street now account for just 54 per cent of the overall video games market according to a new study entitled the Newzoo Games Market Report. The remaining 46 per cent, it claims, is accounted for by sales of pre-owned games, DLC, …

Codemasters is embroiled in a legal dispute with rival local racing studio Playground Games. The Dirt 2 outfit accuses Playground Games of hiring key Codemasters staff, and thus, trade secrets. Playground Games opened at the start of 2010, having been established by former Codemasters CEO Nicholas Wheelwright. Now Codemasters claims …

Facebook has lost a substantial amount of its game users since altering its notification system, with FarmVille alone recording a dip of 4.4 million players. Gamasutra first reported the story, noting that 18 of the top 25 Facebook games lost players in April – with 12 of those games losing …