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Nintendo’s Wii Fit is enjoying its third straight week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, brining the total amount of number ones enjoyed by the title to 12 – with eight coming in 2009. EA’s The Godfather II manages to hold on to …

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Sales monitor GfK-ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it hopes to set up a chart of UK digital downloads by the end of this year. The company said it was in ‘active discussions’ with a number of leading providers of downloadable digital content with a view to inking a deal …

OpenGL game engine to support C++ networking technology

The price of acclaimed PS3 title LittleBigPlanet has tumbled to around 10, six months after it was released. The Media Molecule-developed title has an SRP of 44.99, but can be found at online retailers – including DVD.co.uk – for 10.89, while Play and Amazon have the title on sale for …

UK retail has told MCV that it wants to be a part of the digital revolution, following news that Amazon is selling Xbox Live Arcade game codes in the US. Key UK retailers have told MCV that they would be ‘very interested’ in selling digital games through their websites. However, …

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UK indie outfit now seeking a publisher for the finished game, appoints Bad Management to assist