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ALL FORMATS TOP 50: February 1. Wii Fit (Wii) – Nintendo2. COD: World at War (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PC, DS) – Activision Blizzard3. FIFA 09 (360, PS3, PSP, Wii, PS2, DS, PC) – EA4. Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360) – Capcom5. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS) – …

Alex Evans, the co-founder of LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule, believes that any gamers interested in buying a PS3 have already done so – and that if Sony wishes to grow the console’s user base it has to transfer the casual success it saw on PS2. To read the full story, …

Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich has stated that the firm believes that online sales of GTA IV expansion The Lost and the Damned have bettered retail sales by a ratio of six-to-one. Though Rockstar has not yet released firm sales figures for The Lost and The Damned, …

Global illumination, distributed computing and Atlas MMO system on display

Platform holder Nintendo has dated its key releases for the upcoming Q2 at retail, which include the launch of both the black and white variants of its DSi on April 3rd. Alongside the key software titles, Nintendo Points, the virtual currency used to purchase software from the Virtual Console and …

Jim Mackonochie is set to return to the video games industry through his partners at The Fighter Collection. Mackonochie has previously worked as the managing director at various companies, including Mattel Interactive, Mindscape and The Learning Company. He also founded Mirrorsoft, a software company within Mirror Group Newspapers. He currently …

Nnooo releasing Pop Plus: Solo for Nintendo handheld's download service

ELSPA and ISFE to contribute to interactive discussion

Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 has delivered as expected and entered the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats top 40 at number one in its debut week. The game becomes the fastest selling title in the Resident Evil franchise and becomes Capcom’s biggest ever week one release in the UK. In total, Resident …

In-game ad specialist IGA Worldwide is trying to close a new round of funding – and has put itself up for sale. The company’s chairman Justin Townsend told VentureBeat that the firm would prefer to finish closing a third round of funding within a matter of weeks. He added that …