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The big games of February may have belonged to Sega, Ubisoft and Take-Two, but it was EA that emerged as the biggest publisher last month. The publisher’s vast back catalogue drove sales, with FIFA 10, Mass Effect 2 and Dante’s Inferno the key products. Sega was the highest riser in …

Video games are to play a key role in HMV’s upcoming Easter campaign, which will promote a wide range of entertainment products. The retailer is gearing up for what it considers to be an important sales period with strong advertising in the works for its high-profile activity. Easter is very …

A new site that offers gamers the chance to pay for private video links to gamers of the opposite sex has been forced to temporarily close its beta due to an unexpectedly high level of demand. GameCrush allows gamers to link up to fellow gamers of the opposite sex by …

The final edition of Microsoft’s Project Natal control prototype features technology based on an all-encompassing system-on-a-chip. And Microsoft says that the newly-revealed component will help the company deliver revolutionary controller-free entertainment”. Natal’s tech is now thought to be a modified version of the PS1080 chip – built by Israeli company …

UK players of massively multiplayer online games spent 195m on them last year, a report has found. The Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report also revealed that there are over four million MMO players in Britain, and that UK gamers spent more than any other European country on the genre last …

Natal design to be based on tech by Israeli company PrimeSense

Though to some the omissions of a built-in web browser on Xbox 360 continues to baffle, Microsoft has once again definitively stated that it will not be introducing the feature in any future updates for the console. Instead, it intends to focus on optimising key web experiences through the possible …

GameStop has revealed that 23 per cent of it’s new games revenues in the year ending January 31st 2010 came from the sale of Nintendo products. However, this number is down from the 25 per cent Nintendo commanded in the same period the year before. Gamespot reports that Sony accounted …

Activision has confirmed that the reshuffle at its US office will result in alterations to the structure of its UK operations, though the exact details remain unclear for now. We are realigning our structure to better reflect our slate and the market opportunities in Europe as well as directing our …

David Reeves pledges DLC future for Capcom Europe