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Take-Two has denied our earlier report that it will layoff a segment of its workforce. The company says it will not make any significant cuts – branding current rumour and speculation in the trade that it will do so as ‘erroneous’. And while the games giant flat out denies cuts …

As part of its all-encompassing detailed report on the global video game market in 2009, GfK-ChartTrack has confirmed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 12m units worldwide last year. More precisely, the game’s total sales now stand at 11.86m units – or at least, they did …

The world’s three biggest retail markets for video games saw a combined decline of eight per cent in sales last year according to a new report. A new Top Global Markets report from NPD, GfK-ChartTrack and Famitsu – which integrates data from USA, UK and Japan – shows the downtown …

According to recent findings from Top Global Markets, an integrated monthly report from leading providers of consumer and retail information in the video games industry, The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc., combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets experienced a decline …

Global retailer EB Games is to throw its weight behind the drive to legalise violent games in Australia by promoting awareness of the campaign in its many stores across the territory. Due to the way the Australian regulators are structured, the highest certificate currently available for video games is M15+, …

From tomorrow a number of PlayStation Minis titles will go on sale for two weeks, with savings of between 50p and 1.50. The cuts come as part of what Sony is calling ‘Minis Month’. All the details are over on CasualGaming.biz.

â??The only failing in the otherwise truly excellent Modern Warfare 2 was that the story felt quite old-schoolâ?

[UPDATE:Take-Two has since denied that development jobs are under threat, but has confirmed that a corporate restructure is in progress.] Up to 400 Take-Two staff could end up being laid off by the publisher. According to MCV sources the games giant has to make some tough decisions as it prepares …

The PS3 will eventually outsell Xbox 360 – that’s the prediction of PlayStation Network boss Peter Dille, who claims that Microsoft’s machine is unlikely to enjoy the same ten-year lifecycle that Sony has planned for PS3. I’m confident PS3 will be around in ten years and I can say that …

Direct2Drive has launched its new EU store. The new store can be found at www.direct2drive.eu, and is aimed at customers living in continental Europe, complete with Euro pricing. The IGN-owned digital distribution firm has also teamed up with publishers on a series of price promotions, beginning with 50 per cent …