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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has smashed the week-one sales record for video games in the UK. According to figures from ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack, the title sold a whopping 1.78 million units in its first five days on sale – as predicted by MCV. The title grossed 67.4 million – just …

Cloud-gaming service will land on various cellphones some time after PC launch

Considering the unparalleled success of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Activision Blizzard would rightly be seen to be quite mad if they weren’t planning to take advantage – so talk of a possible series spin-off, whilst purely speculative, is also highly believable. Craig Fairbrass, the man who provides the …

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Job vacancy post highlights commitment to Dead Space and studio Visceral Games

With Modern Warfare now in stores, retail is turning its attentions to the next monster hit: Assassin’s Creed II. Ubisoft has revealed to MCV that the title is the biggest in its history – with a marketing spend that matches up to the publisher’s ambition. Assassin’s Creed II will undoubtedly …

Introductory discounts for indie and large-scale developers

Five years on, WoW’s designers are working through what they see as the mistakes of the past. Launched in the U.S.on November 23, 2004 (Feb 11, 2005 in Europe), the fantasy MMO boasts 12 million active subscribers, and has been the benchmark for all competitors since its launch. It has …

The company, which publishes My Baby for DS as well as shooters and fantasy RPGs, notched up sales of $16.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, up from $8.3 million for the same period in 2008. Pre-tax profits for the Virginia-based outfit were $1.3 million, up from a loss …

New closer scrutiny by Apple will fail Unity iPhone submissions due to private API calls