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RETAIL BIZ: The official ELSPA/gfK-ChartTrack charts are in – but it’s not all about the All Formats list. By visiting MCV’s official single format charts each week, you can keep fully up-to-date with what’s going on at UK tills. Killzone 2 dominates PS3’s list this week and Microsoft’s Halo Wars …

Keiji Inafune, the head of research and development at Japanese publisher Capcom, has stated that the firm decided to opt for platform and timed Xbox 360 exclusives on some of its earlier releases this generation because it believed it was the best way into the Western market. I think I …

Develop talks with the Ubisoft Montreal sound team

Nnooo's founder on the merits of WiiWare and iPhone

US retail giant Toys R Us has become the latest High Street retailer to test out the pre-owned game waters with the news that it is trialling a second hand scheme in some of its North American stores. A spokesperson for the company confirmed to Joystiq that it’s testing the …

How does a team in Montreal recreate the blistering sounds of a war-torn African nation on the brink of collapse? John Broomhall finds outâ?¦

DSGi has revealed that as many as 50 Currys megastores could be rolled out over the next couple of years, and its High Street presence could be reduced to just 100 stores. The firm yesterday confirmed its plans for a new chain of Currys megastores. It also detailed the progress …

Worldwide PC sales will fall at their sharpest rate in the history of the sector this year, according the latest figures from Gartner. According to the research firm, a total of 257m units will be shipped during 2009, a decline of 11.9 per cent compared to last year. The biggest …

A new report from consumer knowledge site Reevoo has claimed that Blu-ray has not seen significant sales rises as a result of either the demise of Toshiba’s HD-DVD or the drop in Blu-ray hardware prices – and it’s saying that direct downloads have stolen the missing piece of the pie. …

Midway owner Mark Thomas, who bought the publisher for $100,000 last December , has admitted that Midway’s cash reserves are rapidly depleting. In a filing unearthed by GamePolitics, Thomas states: Midway has an immediate need to access and use AHS’s Cash Collateral [another company owned by Thomas]. Nor can it …