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Perfect World acquires online platform in $21m expansion

Electronic retailer Best Buy has announced a 24.5 per cent increase in gross profit of $12.2bn for its fiscal year ending February 27. The retailer posted gross revenue for the year at $49.7bn – a ten per cent increase on last year’s figure. Online sales were also up 20 per …

Nordic Games is offering up 50 copies of We Sing for one lucky retailer. 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 store. The dafter the better, obviously. …

Heatwave Interactive using PlaySpan monetisation platform for Platinum Life: Web Edition

Over 300 retailers, resellers, distributors and vendors descended on the capital last night for an evening of celebration and networking, as the third annual PCR Awards hit Kensington’s Royal Garden Hotel. Microsoft was the star of the show, picking up Software Publisher and Campaign of the Year, as well as …

Amidst the backdrop of the publisher’s admission that it is in future to be far stricter with its green-flagging of new IP, EA UK’s sales director has said that new franchise Dante’s Inferno has put in a solid performance”. However, in line with EA’s pledge to extend the value of …

â??With Natal, a lot of developers will see it as another opportunity to move into a brand new marketâ?

Chris Millarâ??s Atomic Operations opens for business

Bungie has yet again refused to rule out future projects appearing on the PS3, stating that its options are open” and reiterating that it will develop for whatever platforms it feels best suit its ambitions. In terms of platform, I know these things are all still pending topics in the …

Sony Europeâ??s music manager talks up working with what you know