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MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view online and download now. Our essential six-page supplement offers an in-depth look at this week’s official Gfk-ChartTrack multiformat Top 40 – still topped by EA’s Mass Effect 2 – as well as all of the official UK single and multi-format …

Lifetime sales of Sony’s racing simulator series Gran Turismo have hit 55m, developer Polyphony Digital has revealed. Furthermore, sales of the latest instalment – the simply titled Gran Turismo on PSP – have now hit 1.8m. The only instalment of the series on PS3 to date, Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, …

Square Enix has reported an operating income of YEN 21.4bn for the nine months ending December 31st 2009, a jump of 67.7 per cent year-on-year. Net sales for the period were up 30.0 per cent at YEN 135bn. Its games operations in isolation saw net sales jump 97 per cent …

It’s two weeks and counting at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 for EA’s Mass Effect 2 this week – in fact, the top three remains exactly as it was, with Ubisoft’s Just Dance and Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 staying put in second and third respectively. …

Proper Gamesâ?? Andrew Smith explores why the designer is singled out in a team endeavour

Edition 102 features focus on recruitment; available to read online now

Obviously still sore from Apple’s ongoing strategy of locking Flash out of its iPhone OS products – including the new iPad – Flash creator Adobe has once again launched a scathing attack on the Mac platform holder. Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on …

In short: Amazon briefly removed MacMillan books from sale when the publisher told the retailer to stop dropping the prices of its products on digital book reader the Kindle. The resultant stand-off didn’t last long, but it highlighted a key issue around the control over pricing for digital products. It’s …

With EA making plenty of noise about the April release of its FIFA World Cup South Africa tie-in, Konami has quietly announced a World Cup-themed Pro Evolution Soccer title scheduled to coincide with this summer’s tournament. More specifically, it has confirmed a spring release for Winning Eleven 2010 Aoki Samurai …

MGS Europe creative director takes part in Developâ??s weekend FAQ