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While rival Activision seems keen to up the price that gamer’s fork out on their favourite hobby, EA has claimed that consumers can expect to see games come down in price some time in the future. I think that we’re going to start to see – maybe not in the …

Monster Hunter Tri for Wii will be distributed in Europe and Australia by Nintendo. The platform holder will be responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution, while Capcom will remain the publisher. The game is due in April. This is not the first time Nintendo has handled Capcom products in …

Having been neck and neck through much of the year in the Japanese video games market, hardware sales figures from Enterbrain suggest that Nintendo’s Wii managed to lurch ahead in the closing stages of 2009 to outsell Sony’s resurgent PS3. The Wii shifted 1,975,178 units throughout the year – a …

Lost millions recouped by contract and profit share audits

Festival of Gamesâ?? Irina Voblaia talks applying sandbox MMO principles to the game design

Speakers include David Braben, shadow secretary Ed Vaizey, Tigaâ??s Richard Wilson and MP Keith Vaz

Find out what happened when Activision’s Andrew Brown quizzed Microsoft’s Neil Thompson, Sony’s Ray Maguire and Nintendo’s David Yarnton… What are your thoughts on when you expect sales of digitally distributed games to overtake those of boxed product on your format? Neil Thompson, Senior Regional Director, Northern Europe, Entertainment & …

One publisher boss. Three format-holder chiefs. Five questions. Find out what happened when Activision’s Andrew Brown quizzed Microsoft’s Neil Thompson, Sony’s Ray Maguire and Nintendo’s David Yarnton. Click here to read the full feature.

The Wii returned to the top of the Japanese hardware sales chart in the final week of 2009, selling more than 215,000 units. The Nintendo console knocks Sony’s PS3, the previous week’s bestselling console down to third, according to Gamasutra. For the week ending December 27th, 2009, the PS3 sold …

Media company Future has confirmed its new management lineup at multiformat games website CVG with former MCV online editor and associate editor Tim Ingham taking charge as editor. As part of the reshuffle John Houlihan becomes CVG’s first ever editor-in-chief. He has been working as Future’s web manager for gaming …