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Early numbers from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain claim that the Japanese market suffered a slight annual decline for the fiscal year ending March 31st. However, the dip was lower than expected at just 0.6 per cent, with the total market value hitting YEN 549,060m. A sharp 6.6 per cent decline in …

Remedy Entertainment CEO adds his name to industry luminaries committee

Sega has confirmed a sequel to Conduit is in the works and will be released for the Wii this autumn. Conduit 2 is an FPS that picks up where the original left off and allows players to save humanity from an alien onslaught. New features include a four-player co-op mode, …

The studio behind the successful Battlefield franchise has said that it never wants to charge gamers for post-release map DLC. We don’t ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together,” DICE’s …

New studio Zinkyzonk to cross-pollenate Mafia Wars and Pet Society

The time for talking is over. Leading UK games retailer GAME is to, in the words of one of its leading execs, take on the supermarkets at their own game” by introducing a range of fresh food produce in some of its key UK stores. MCV can reveal that in-store …

Sega emerged victorious at last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Quiz, fending off competition from Gamespot and GAME. A mixture of retailers, media, peripheral firms and publishers gathered at London’s Sway Bar to battle to be the biggest brains in games, and win some pretty spectacular prizes, including Xbox 360 Elites and …

For the second year running, hundreds of games fans have gathered in Sydney to campaign for the introduction of an R18+ age rating for video games in the country, Kotaku reports. And, much like in 2009, the masses chose to dress up like the undead and shuffle appropriately from their …

The latest instalment in the globally popular Metal Gear Solid series has seen its UK release date slip by nearly a month, Konami has stated. Speaking to CVG, the publisher stated that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will now hit UK retail on June 18th. Originally it had been penned …

Nordic Games is offering up 50 copies of We Sing for one lucky retailer – that’s 2,000 worth of stock. All you have to do to be in with a shout is send a picture of you, your staff, your customers or any combination thereof using We Sing in your …