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The Metreon Center at 4th and Mission in downtown San Francisco is a lonesome place, a retail ghost-town, murmuring with the spooky semi-silence of our ruined economy. Mostly, it’s empty and gray, echoing the endless moan of a trundling escalator, shifting dwindling numbers of movie-goers to a fourth floor cinema. …

While Apple is â??ignoringâ? requests to know why Edge has again been removed from the App Store

Seattle-based startup studio Undead Labs has revealed its new zombie MMO game for consoles will almost certainly” employ subscription charges. And according to the studio’s founder Jeff Strain, Sony and Microsoft are keen on the idea. There are still hurdles to jump with both Sony and Microsoft. But people will …

Jeff Strain on how heâ??ll teach the MMO genre new tricks â?? with zombies and consoles

MCV’s Recommended Extra dedicated to Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is now available to read online. You can flick through the pages or download the whole thing as a PDF. As well as everything you need to know about the making and marketing of the games, there’s a …

In a surprising – and arguably illegal – move Finnish mobile giant Nokia has chosen to highlight the emulation functionality of its N900 smartphone on its Nokia Conversation blog. The promotional video, which can be seen here, shows a dedicated emulation menu sporting buttons for the likes of the Game …

As well as rapidly easing past the half-billion dollar revenue milestone just days after its global release earlier this month, Broadpoint AmTech analyst Ben Schachter has predicted that Activision could generate as much as $140m in revenue from its upcoming Modern Warfare 2 digital content. Furthermore, Infinity Ward’s community man …

The importance of reviews aggregators such as Metacritic may be overstated, according to Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz, who claims that of the eight metrics measured review scores emerged as the least influential. Instead, the study found that word-of-mouth was by far the most effective driver of consumer purchases. We …

â??These games put designers in a position where they spend their time not thinking about what is fun,â? says MMO maestro

$100,000 prize fund for Application Store Developer Challenge 2009