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The latest release in Square Enix’s hugely popular RPG series, Dragon Quest IX, has enjoyed a fantastic debut in Japan racking up sales of 2,343,440 copies in its first two days on sale.Andriasang reports that the numbers mean that DQIX bettered the impressive debut of predecessor DGVIII, which sold 2,237,000 …

New data from metrix specialist comScore has shown that the number of people playing online casual games in the US was up by 22 per cent annually in May – a stat that’s in stark contrast to the mass market losses seen in the console sector. Venturebeat reports that over …

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The games industry’s definitive guide to agencies and service companies, Sourcebook, is now available to download and flick through online. You can also browse the homepage of the printed product by clicking here. Sourcebook ’09 – sponsored by Universally Speaking – is an all-year reference tool, featuring over 70 companies …

The London Games Festival is set to return to the capital for its fourth successive year from October 24th. This year’s festival promises ‘something for everyone’, according to organisers – including parents seeking advice on safe gaming for their children. Confirmed highlights of this year’s festival include: the London MCM …

Fight Night Round 4 has suffered a KO after two weeks at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40, but it’s not all bad news for EA, with fellow sports sim Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 taking the fighter’s place. Tiger Woods increases its standing by one …

Konami has announced a new horror game for the Wii that shies away from the genre’s typical mechanics in favour of a more experiential structure. Calling traps players in a strange building and sees them searching for a way out using the Wii Remote as a torch. The Wii Remote …

'Developers are a footloose bunch' says Toronto-based senior reporter

Electronic Arts has unveiled its 8lb Gorilla; the newest addition to its fleet of development studios. 8lb Gorilla will strengthen EA’s push into the ever-growing iPhone and App Store scene, though the studio’s production schema – to release unique, unadulterated and particularly cheap titles on a monthly basis – will …

ELSPA wants to take advantage of its strengthened relationship with the Government to get more important issues for the industry discussed in Parliament. After the body’s success in lobbying the Government to choose PEGI as the UK’s only age classification system, it has now turned its attention to tax breaks, …