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Amidst the gloom of yet more annual falls in the US video games market, hardware sales for June were better than expected hitting $1.7m – NPD had expected that number to be around $1.55m. As always, Nintendo’s machines were the star performers with DS shifting 766,500 units and the Wii …

Gaming’s recession-proof credentials took a further knock overnight with news that the North American video games market suffered its fourth successive month of decline in June, falling 31 per cent to $1.17bn.

 It’s the worst year-on-year fall since September 2000, a month that saw annual declines of 41 per cent. …

Chair Entertainmentâ??s XBLA title Shadow Complex to adapt narrative from best-selling novel

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Prestige edition will be made available in the UK exclusively through HMV. The Prestige edition was unveiled earlier in the week by Infinity Ward, and features a collector’s bust of Captain ‘Soap’ MacTavish from the game, a special edition Steelbook, an art book, a …

Penny Arcade event to showcase ten of the most promising indie titles on the radar

Develop â??09: Travellers Tales reveal more on Indiana Jonesâ?? 3D level editor

Is that a crime? In the eyes of some, yes. Activision played the poker face and said it doesn’t publicly discuss pricing when asked about the issue. But EA, for one, has emphatically denied it will raise prices this year. The last games company to do this – Nintendo, when …

Some say Microsoft ‘won’ E3 with Natal. When did work on the new device begin? We started looking at controller-less gaming about four years ago. So it’s been quite a while. The great thing about Microsoft is that we are a big software company – and almost everything in Natal …

Develop Conference: Audio developers shoul use 'fewer brush strokes'

Develop '09: First half of FY 2009 booming for animation experts