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DSGi is to step up of its renewal and transformation programme with 120 stores to be refitted by the end of 2009. According to Mobile Today, around 120 stores will be refurbished throughout its portfolio under the ‘Get Connected’ theme, with 15 of those expected to be Currys.digital outlets. The …

Namco Bandai Partners has announced that Ghostbusters will arrive in Europe on October 26th for Xbox 360, DS, PC and Wii. The titles were originally scheduled for release in June, before Sony secured publishing rights for the PlayStation games – forcing the other SKUs to get pushed back. Ghostbusters was …

Speaking exclusively to MCV, popular games journalist Gary Cutlack has expressed his sadness at the demise of UK blog publisher Shiny Media. ”The death of Shiny makes me sad rather than angry,” he said in a blog piece written for MCV. ”Never once did Shiny sell a ‘proper’ advert on …

I wasn’t expecting it to last, though. My previous noisy start-up experience was with Computec Media UK which, much like Shiny, started off making all the right sexual sounds about throwing its money around, hiring all the best people regardless of salary demands and changing various industry landscapes. Then budgets …

EA’s solid work in successfully bringing new games IP Dead Space to the market last year tastes that bit sweeter for the US publisher today with news that the franchise is to be spun-off into a Hollywood movie. Variety reports that D.J. Caruso has been drafted in to direct the …

Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort has hit top spot in the ELSPA/GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 in its debut week. The title, which comes bundled with the Wii MotionPlus accessory, clocks up the fourth-highest week one sales for a Wii game, behind Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Mario & Sonic …

Independent developer Bungie is closing in on a publishing deal for its unannounced project; a game that marks the studio’s first major step away from the Halo universe. Bungie’s multiplayer designer Lars Bakken told Eurogamer that the group will know sometime soon” which company has secured a publishing deal with …

Cult developer Bungie has admitted that Halo: Reach, of which hardly anything is yet known, will most likely be the last Halo title it develops for Xbox 360. However, the company also hinted that platform holder Microsoft may be less willing to give up on its hugely profitable brand – …

The concern that Nintendo consoles are not a suitable platform for mature-rated games will be tested yet again later this year with the news that the BBFC has granted EA’s upcoming Wii-exclusive Dead Space: Extraction an 18 certificate. No cuts were made to the game, which is an on-rails take …

News Corp is to strengthen the video gaming offering on MySpace, in a hope to close the gap on Facebook, which currently courts more users. As reported by Reuters, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference in Pasadena, California, News Corp digital head Jonathan Miller has been discussing the importance …