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Wii Sports is a gaming phenomenon – so it’s little wonder that the retail world has been waiting for a sequel with baited breath. This week, MCV take a special first look at Wii Sports Resort – and Nintendo’s plans for the trade. We reveal both behind-the-scenes information about the …

ELSPA and GfK-ChartTrack have this morning released UK video game sales results for the first half of 2009 And thanks to Nintendo the numbers show that family games and educational titles are currently the most popular genre in the country. Nintendo’s Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii titles …

Xbox Indie Games, PlayStation 3 and Larabee sessions added to the roster

New version offers up to 40 per cent performance improvement

Gears of War creator makes heavy hints about future Epic titles

The long-awaited arrival of Final Fantasy XIII may still be some way off, but fans of Square Enix’s popular series will be able to get their teeth stuck into a brand new outing in the shape of Dissidia Final Fantasy this September. The PSP-only title boasts the largest ever cast …

Ubisoft has joined forces with customer care experts RightNow to provide a new service to support its gamers. The publisher’s new phone self-service channel boasts an interactive voice response software that interacts with customers using prompts and speech recognition technology. The service gathers information from the caller and uses it …

Artificial Technology secures second round of funding ahead of new engine reveal at GamesCom

Serco Games Research now PlayableGames

Japanese publisher Capcom is to pillage its supremely rich back-catalogue of retro titles for a slew of releases on Sony’s PlayStation Network, all of which will be playable on both PS3 and PSP.

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