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GAME Group’s sales have fallen 10.8 per cent for the 44 weeks to December 5th – despite strong sales of FIFA and Modern Warfare 2. Like-for-like sales were for the same period were down 15.1 per cent, while total UK sales were down 14.3 per cent. Meanwhile, for the 18 …

An Israel-based company that directly provides streaming games to set top boxes has claimed its service will offer publishers long-term revenue opportunities when it launches next year. PlayCast allows modern video games to be played live via on-demand TV providers such as BT and Virgin Media, without the need for …

Khronos Group explains how WebGL could mean the browser gaming boom skips plug-ins altogether

While we still don’t know exactly how many copies of both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony have been downloaded by Xbox 360 owners, the secrecy itself has done most of the talking – and now one analyst has gone as far as to speculate that …

Famed Portal team lead joins Airtight Games to head up new project

Konami has begun the process of vetting the Pro Evolution Soccer fanbase about what they consider Konami should be concentrating on as it gets to work on next year’s PES 2011. The questions touch on subjects such as graphics, gameplay, licenses and editing – and fanboys should take note of …

A hero of British publishing and development for the past four decades, Ian Livingstone finds himself at the centre of Square Enix’s ‘new’ Eidos. Tim Ingham catches up with Lara Croft’s right-hand man…Can you give us a general impression of how the Square UK ‘merger’ has gone – and how …

Things might not be going quite as smoothly for the Pro Evolution Soccer series in Europe as publisher Konami would have hoped, but the series is showing no signs of lagging in its homeland of Japan. Kotaku reports that PES 2010 was the best selling game throughout November in Japan, …

Just this morning MCV reported that New Super Mario Bros Wii had shifted an impressive 422k units in Nintendo’s homeland of Japan in its first 24 hours on the shelves – and now the game has gone on to smash Wii’s week one sales record in the territory. Famitsu reports …

The news is not surprising, but EA has for the first time officially confirmed what we all suspected – Dead Space 2 is in development for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Much like its predecessor, Dead Space 2 is being developed by Visceral Games. It will once again star protagonist …