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HMV hopes to use its stake in digital delivery service 7Digital to take on the likes of Steam and Metaboli. The retailer acquired a 50 per cent stake in 7Digital last week, for 7.7 million in cash. The London-based firm has a catalogue of over six million digital music tracks …

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Contrary to reports elsewhere, MCV can confirm that UK retail will see the trade price of Nintendo’s console fall on October 2nd. However, as had been speculated, the trade price change will only bring Wii down to the same level it was at prior to its controversial trade price hike …

The anticipated Wii price cut has at last been made official, with drops for machine in both North America and Japan due to come into effect. As has been speculated, the price of the Wii in the US will drop from its current $249 to $199 from September 27th. In …

Sony talked up its line up of holiday releases, plus highlighted recent success for the PS3 and PSP hardware – and briefly showed off the upcoming Motion Controller – in its Tokyo Game Show keynote today. But there were no surprises or major announcements frm the format holder at Japan’s …

Capcom guru says new Microsoft controller will 'stir up our creative spirits'

Tokyo Game Show used to prove Microsoft has appeal with global studios

Electronic Arts shares jump following unsubstantiated talk of acquisition

If this morning’s news that Warner or Viacom might be interested in buying ailing publisher THQ, now rumours on the stock market are pegging EA as a potential acquisition target – from Microsoft. According to Reuters, shares in EA jumped over than 4 per cent to $19.36 today on as …

Former EA and 20th Century Fox marketing director Al King has made a return to the video games industry with Creative Partnership. The marketing firm specialises in creating movie trailers, and has hired King to head up an expansion of its service offering to include video games. Creative Partnership has …