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For the second time this year Ubisoft’s Just Dance is spending its second week in a row at the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. The triumph means Ubisoft can now lay claim to more 2010 number ones than any other publisher. And with Splinter Cell: …

Charles Cecil and Gareth Edmondson set for cross-media panel talk

It’s a title that gamers have been demanding for years and now Sega’s Sports Interactive has finally announced that it is coming – and it will be here within the next 48 hours. Football Manager Handheld 2010, as it will be called, should hopefully be on the App Store by …

Time is running out if you want to be in with a chance of winning 2,000 of stock for your store. Nordic Games is giving away 50 copies of the hit Wii karaoke game, We Sing – and this week is your last chance to enter. All you have to …

Trade body â??had positive discussionsâ?? on establishing a Govt game agency

The combination of a licence as wide-reaching as the World Cup and a new easier-to-understand control scheme will, EA hopes, entice a new generation of gamers to buy into the already lucrative FIFA franchise later this month. We’re delighted with the performance of FIFA 10 and believe 2010 FIFA World …

An industry is divided, as iPhone OS 4.0 ToS appear to reveal a move to oust anything but native code

It’s still held up as the benchmark title for high-end PC gaming, so what is the thinking behind the arrival of Crytek’s FPS series Crysis on console? It’s not about sales. It’s never, ever about sales. Sales is EA’s job,” Crytek’s CEO Cevat Yerli told VG247. That the console migration …

Brno-based studio to develop new Konami franchise title

Fired Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella might be back in games development sooner than you think. Although the two are embroiled in an ugly suit-countersuit with former employer Activision, their lawyer has said the two ‘plan to have an announcement very soon’ detailing their next move. It …