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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

Microsoft has announced it will be running an event dedicated to Project Natal in addition to its key E3 press conference in June. The new event was announced through a Twitter post from Microsoft’s director of product management Aaron Greenberg, who said: Just one press conference on Monday morning, Sunday …

The average sale price of a video game in the UK fell last year compared to 2008, new data from the ERA shows. The overall average price of a game in 2009 was 21.34, down from 22.99 in 2008. In addition, supermarkets may be the largest growing games retailers in …

It’s official: supermarkets are the fastest growing games retailers in the UK.According to TNS data published by ERA this week, supermarkets took up 17.7 per cent of revenue earned through video game software sales in 2009 – a whopping 328m. That figure was just 210m, 10.1 per cent of the …

John Broomhall gets down on the carpet to find out what makes Sonyâ??s virtual pet squealâ?¦