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North American video game retailer Game Crazy is to close, it has been confirmed. The decision comes after parent company Movie Gallery filed for bankruptcy in February of this year – the second time it has done so in the last three years. Over half of Game Crazy’s total of …

Famed developer David Perry has posted an image on his blog of an employee playing the PC-only MMO World of Warcraft on the Apple iPad. How is this achieved? Via Perry’s Gaikai cloud computing service, which allows any game to be potentially played on any internet-ready device. Soon I’ll be …

Details about the requirements of the Uniloc: SoftAnchor DRM that Sega has chosen to ship with the upcoming PC release of Alpha Protocol have been outlined by the publisher in an extensive blog post aiming to alleviate gamers’ concerns. Gamers will be required to have an internet connection to activate …

GAME has seen its profits tumble 27 per cent. Why has trading been so tough? Ben White: We’ve been clear with the market about where we expected to come out. We’ve hit our numbers exactly in line with expectations at 90.4 million profit before tax. If you look at the …

It was the PS3 version of EA’s 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa that shone at retail over the weekend, with official figures from ELSPA GfK Chart-Track showing that the Sony release accounted for 48 per cent of sales. It was only just ahead of Xbox 360, though, which claimed …

Kazunori Yamauchi has once again assured Gran Turismo fans that work on the highly anticipated racer is nearly complete. In an interview with Inside Line, the series’ creator said: Gran Turismo 5 is about 90 per cent finished. There are currently around 140 people, working on the project.” He also …

Side's new biz dev manger on his new role with the creative services company

Sony has confirmed that a brand new God of War is in development for PSP and will be released later this year. Called God of War: Ghost of Sparta, the game resumes from the narrative point where last year’s God of War on PSP left off. With Kratos on a …

Street Fighter studio works with Aurora Feint to create iPhone and iPod titles

It didn’t seem to hurt Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s performance at retail, so talk of a 54.99 RRP for the upcoming COD: Black Ops shouldn’t come as a huge shock. There was much furore in July last year when Activision took the bold move of pricing Modern Warfare …