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Leading games industry figures have signed up to speak at next month’s Game Based Learning Conference. Capitalising on the success of the Handheld Learning Conference, Game Based Learning (GBL) will evaluate all aspects of games in education, and will feature speeches from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Eidos co-founder Ian Livingstone …

During the Activision Blizzard Q4 earnings call it emerged that two games based on James Bond are being developed by Bizarre Creations. Little is known about the two games. One is a racer that will see launch towards the end of 2009, while the other is a new James Bond …

University of London college looks to collaborative research opportunities

Sony is the only one of the three platform holders to not yet issue a statement after NPD’s January stats for the North American market showed that PS3 was the only major console to see an annual decline in monthly sales . The numbers showed that whilst Wii sales grew …

Nintendo remained seemingly untouchable in January according to the latest NPD stats, and has claimed that the growth seen in both the Wii and DS market is helping the overall games sector by offsetting declines on other platforms ”. The overall January market in North America grew by $150m compared …

Xbox 360 has continued to defy expectations by posting yet another monthly annual sales increase, with January sales of Xbox 360 climbing by 33 per cent year-on-year to hit 309,000 units according to NPD . January was also the strongest ever month for the firm’s online platform Xbox Live, which …

German developer working on educational title with Government

Nintendo and Microsoft were the main beneficiaries of the promising Janauary sales climbs seen in NPD’s latest numbers – but Sony’s PS3 continues to suffer a decline in sales, surely putting more pressure ion the firm to drop the price of the machine in March. Total North American hardware sales …

The latest results from stats firm NPD show that the North American video game market grew 13 per cent in January compared to the same month the year before to reach a total value of $1.33bn. The results are hugely impressive not only due to the darkening global economic situation, …

Microsoft is to open a chain of branded stores across North America, Edge reports. The initiative is to be headed by the former worldwide product distribution boss at DreamWorks Animation, David Potter. Details on the stores are more or less non-existent at the moment, though they will undoubtedly focus heavily …