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US publisher and developer MumboJumbo is to release a boxed version of XBLA hit Braid for the PC in North America. The time bending platform game has been a huge success as a download on the Xbox 360, and its retail release goes some way to demonstrating the potential of …

Popular 59p app Pocket God has now sold over 2m copies on the Apple App store, becoming the first paid app ever to reach the milestone. We couldn’t be happier with the turnout we’ve seen at the island,” Bolt Creative CEO Dave Castelnuovo stated. The community has been absolutely incredible …

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We’re used to marketers defending what many regard as poor games, but it’s less common to hear a publisher boss lambaste his own titles – but that’s exactly what Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has done. Speaking to Game Informer, as spotted by Destructoid, the high-flying exec stated: Our Spider-Man games …

But the EA-owned studio hasnâ??t yet ruled out multiplatform console work

Rock Band Network for Xbox 360 has now entered open beta. The service invites musicians to upload and sell video game versions of their tunes. Songs are priced between 99 cents and $2.99, with the artist set to receive a 30 per cent cut. Harmonix hopes the service will attract …

Ahead of the release of EA’s Mass Effect 2 next week, the game’s developer BioWare has confirmed that the third entry in the series will be released on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and not any possible successor. Asked if this was the case by GameZone, project director Casey Hudon stated: That …

Platform holderâ??s nameless peripheral set for contemporaneous Natal release

Australia’s games industry set new sales records last year, with total revenues coming in at AUD $2.05 billion. Data from market research group GfK Retail and Technology Australia showed this figure had increased by 4 per cent when compared to the previous year. Software sales rose by 6 per cent …

Nintendo’s Wii Play, a collection of minigames that comes bundled with the stand-alone Wii Remote, has been named as the best selling non-PC game of all time in the US, according to new numbers from NPD. Sales numbers weren’t released, but Gamespot reports that Wii Play passed the 11.1m sales …