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Click here to view the latest additions to the RETAIL BIZ previews section, offering a guide to some of the most promising titles coming out in May. Codemasters’ high-octane racer FUEL is in pole position this week, bringing gamers 5,000 square miles of varying and challenging terrain to master. The …

Two upcoming peripheral-led titles, The Strike and The Hunt, being developed with Terminal Realityâ??s new engine

PS3’s Japanese resurgence is showing no signs of abating with news that Sony’s console has successfully outsold Nintendo’s Wii for the second month on the trot in the territory. Reuters reports that Sony sold 108,530 PS3 console in April. That’s down on the 146,948 sold in March but still ahead …

Stats from sales analyst NPD have shown that the Canadian video games market suffered a like-for-like fall in sales in Q1 – the first time the territory has shown an annual dip since figures began in 2002. Edge reports that retail sales of hardware and software fell by 8.5 per …

Digital Molecular Matter â?? the material physics tool found in The Force Unleashed â?? will be added to Trinigyâ??s Vision Engine

Games industry analyst Michael Pachter has boldly stated that the current crop of games consoles may represent the end of the generational cycle we have become accustomed to – with the exception of the long-rumoured hi-def Wii. We do not expect a ‘new’ console in 2010, other than the long-rumoured …

It seems nothing is able to challenge Wii Fit at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 with Activision Blizzard’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine failing to stop Nintendo’s title making it five weeks on the trot at the top. By debuting in second spot Wolverine did, however, successfully …

A Thomson Reuters poll has revealed that analysts expect EA will later today post sales of some $631.9 million. The surveyed group are also expecting a loss of 43 cents per share on those sales figures. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, in a note to investors, was upbeat about EA’s …

June event grows dedicated business areas with meeting space and kiosks for studios

Expect more of this sort of thing as E3 nears. Last week it was the PS3 that was preparing for a motion-sensing E3 reveal, and now it appears that Xbox 360 is being connected with the same rumour. Engadget claims to have received ‘a tip’ from an insider connected to …