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Retail giants Wal-Mart and Best Buy have pulled out of a plan to extend their reach in the games market via automatic store-based kiosks. In May last year Wal-Mart teamed up with E-Play to place kiosks in 80 of its 3,600 U.S. stores, while Best Buy also carried the experiment …

German engine firm targeting PS3, 360, WIi, PC, Wii Ware, XBLA and PSN with new tech

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Video games retail specialist GAME has announced the appointment of David Mansfield as a non-executive director. He will join the board in April. Mansfield is currently chairman of Radio Joint Audience Research and a director at Ingenious Media. He has previously served stints at Capital Radio. The video games and …

But publisher lowers full year forecasts despite spectacular nine-month results

Capcom has reported net profits of YEN 1.73bn ($19.1m) for the nine months ending December 31st 2009 – a whopping 866 per cent increase on the same period a year before. Net sales hit YEN 49.98bn ($554m) in the period, up five per cent year-on-year. Star performers included the Monster …

Ubisoft studio Blue Byte to take advice from the industry veteran

Jonathan Goddard is set to take up the new role of senior manager of European PR for the EA Games label. Goddard is due to leave his current position of senior PR manager for EA UK on February 1st and join the European team to bolster the firm’s releases on the …

Retail guru Anna Downing has joined Sega as senior product manager. Downing has worked in games retail for almost ten years in a variety of buying and marketing roles. Most recently she was product marketing manager at GAME, a position she took when Gamestation’s York head office merged with GAME’s …

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