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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 …

You have until Monday to secure a Finalist position in the MCV Industry Excellence Awards 2009. If you haven’t, you can be sure that your competitors have, so email us now to tell us why you should be considered. To lobby your suggestions on who should win on the night, …

Credit crunch has positive impact on EVE Online according to CCP's economist

Activision Q4 earnings call reveals duo of 007 titles underway at Project Gotham studio

DONTNOD sets sights on triple-A console titles and cross-media products

Four pricing levels now available for different uses

Sony has announced that it’s sold 50 million units of its PlayStation Portable handheld. The figure includes cumulative numbers of all the PSP models released to-date, and the platform holder has also announced that total PSP software unit sales have reached 200 million. As revealed by MCV yesterday, Sony has …

As EVE Online continues its new promotional push, and prepares a free expansion and a debut boxed release, we spoke with the gameâ??s in-game economist Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson.

Square Enix has delayed the Japanese release of Dragon Quest IX, causing a massive revisal of its predicted earnings. According to a report on Japanese site ITmedia, which quotes a Square Enix release, the company has discerened that a ‘severe defect’ exists in the current build of the game, and …

The next edition of Official Nintendo Magazine contains further details on the newly-announced Mario and Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games. The new Sega-published title, announced earlier today, follows on from the mega-selling original. The Wii version was the fifth best selling individual SKU of 2008, so the sequel, due …