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Wii’s hardcore gaming credentials have taken another knock with the news that one of its leading mature brands is unlikely to appear again on the system. No More Heroes, a title from Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture, is one of the leading hardcore titles on the system and a sequel is …

Some good news for Blu-ray at last. New numbers from the British Video Association show that 3.1m of the hi-def discs have been sold so far in 2009 – that’s a 231 per cent increase on the same period last year. The knock-on has of course been a dip in …

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Platform holder was simply waiting for digital market to mature, says head of product planning

Upcoming developer conference to add focus to the bourgeoning mobile platform

Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, where MCV offers a guide to the best games heading to retail this month. This week, we take a look at Bethesda’s Fallout 3 Game Add-On Pack: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt. This expansion pack brings the first two DLC episodes …

Universal Music has pledged its back catalogue to a new karaoke game set to challenge SingStar. MCV can reveal that French label Mindscape will publish U-Sing in time for Christmas across the UK and Europe. The firm has previously signed distribution deals with UK publishers for releases in the territory …

This generation of consoles has sold 24 million units in the UK to date – up 8.4 million in the last 12 months. According to GfK-ChartTrack data for sales up to June 27th, 2009, DS enjoys the biggest installed base with 9.1 million, up 2.7 million from the same period …

The GAME Group has reported like-for-like sales in H1 2009 were down 15.4 per cent – in line with what the company had forecast. In the 21 weeks to June 27th, 2009, total Group sales dropped 9.1 per cent on the firm’s previous half-year. In the UK and Ireland, total …