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As part of his report that outlined the true scale of the North American pre-owned software market, Wedbush Morgan’s analyst Michael Pachter has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons by predicting that PS3 will ultimately overtake Xbox 360’s install base in this generation of machines. Crediting the Blu-ray alliance’s victory …

Whilst it still has some way to go to top the multitude of Wii and DS accessories that have for some time dominated much of retails’ gaming shelf space, Sony is looking to up the presence of PlayStation based peripherals on the market. SCE has confirmed that it is expanding …

A look at industry negotiations with the country's Cultural Ministry

The first of my regular series of business profiles

A guide to running an economically resilient studio

Whether or not the previous owners of Swedish file-sharing portal The Pirate Bay succeed in over-turning their prosecution in the increasingly protracted legal saga, it seems that The Pirate Bay as we know it is no longer. Swedish software firm and internet caf network Global Gaming Factory X is reported …

An introduction to the relevance of an aging technique

The studioâ??s president hints that Reach could employ Microsoftâ??s new motion-sensing tech

The importance of high-level paper design

A new report from GameSetWatch shows that to date only one Sony published PS3 exclusive title, Insomniac’s Resistance: Fall of Man, has sold over 1m units in North America in the two and a half years that PS3 has been on the market. The only other title to even near …