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Rapidly growing UK retailer The Hut has revealed that its network of websites saw a 188 per cent year-on-year increase in the number of orders it received in the six weeks over Christmas. In the same period international revenue soared 240 per cent year-on-year. We are extremely happy with these …

Growing UK publisher Rising Star has signed up sexy starlet Alex Sim-Wise as a writer for its Japanese-orientated games portal Hoshi Club. Sim-Wise shot to fame after winning FHM’s Student of the Year award in 2004. After a spell modelling she went on to work in the media. She joins …

New VC injection adds to a previous $1m round of funding

CCP on why Perforce is essential to maintaining EVE Online's vast subscriber base

Koch Media has announced it has picked up the distribution rights for S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat. Under its new partnership with the game’s publisher bitComposer Games, Koch will handle the game in the UK, Nordic and Italian markets. After the distribution success we saw with S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky, we are …

Sony Europe has confirmed to VG247 that the Collector’s Edition of PS3-exclusive title Heavy Rain will be available exclusively through HMV. A listing for the SKU appeared on the HMV website earlier today, priced at just 40. Included will be a voucher for the game’s first DLC offering, a copy …

Ruffian co-founder Billy Thomson hails Rocksteadyâ??s breakthrough Batman title

We hear lots about the success Nintendo has enjoyed in the emerging casual games sector, but new statistics about the North American PSP audience suggest that Sony has achieved great things in the female sector. Edge reports that 52 per cent of US PSP owners are female. This compares to …

Japanese publisher Capcom believes that future growth in the current generation of consoles will be focused on the Xbox 360 and PS3, stating that it intends to pump fewer resources into development of Wii titles. The decision follows poor sales of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on Nintendo’s console. The …

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