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Entertainment retailer HMV has announced the immediate appointment of Sarah Hughes as its new head of online. Hughes joins from rival online firm Amazon and will head a team of 15 within the chain’s marketing department in a role that has been expanded to cater for HMV’s growing online aspirations. …

New addition fuels speculation that the social game giant will go public

MCV, the leading print and online publication for the fast-moving games industry, is looking to grow its team with the appointment of a News Editor. This position offers huge potential for the right person. MCV touches every corner of the market, from publishing and retail through to games development. The …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been named as the best game of 2009 by US magazine Time, which praised it for its raw, riveting military action”. Other titles to do well in the list include Eidos’ Batman: Arkham Asylum, Activision’s DJ Hero, 2K Games’ Borderlands and Nintendo’s New …

Online gaming is expected to have an audience of 230 million gamers in China by 2012. That’s according to the latest report from Beijing-based research firm Analysis International, which also predicts the sector will generate revenues of YUAN 73.1 billion (10.7 million) in the next three years. The country currently …

Forza Motorsport 3 has surpassed the one million mark in worldwide sales within one month of its release. Microsoft also announced the Forza community has spent a total of 6.6 million hours playing online during that time, with more than 64 million sessions. The company also stated that players have …

Sotaro Tojima, former audio director on MGS4, joins Microsoft's Halo team

John Riccitiello has stated that the emerging force that is post-release downloadable content is the key tool in battling both the pre-owned market and piracy. The consumer seems to really like this idea that there is extra stuff,” Riccitiello told Nightly Business Report. The consumer wants more, and when you …

It’s as upsetting as it is admirable, but everything Simon Cowell touches seems to turn to gold: And now he’s fixing his sights firmly on the video games industry. According to an interview with the high-waisted mogul in this month’s GQ, Cowell is teaming up with Topshop entrepreneur Philip Green …