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Capcom is to tour UK retailers with the original Street Fighter IV arcade release, giving the public a chance to sample the game in its original form before the February 20th console release. Starting in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gamestation, Capcom has currently confirmed five dates, including a stop at London’s …

As had been previously suggested, a long-awaited new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII has confirmed that the next-gen Square Enix RPG will be released on PS3 in Japan this year. However, as MCV revealed earlier this month, there’s still no word on when the game will be released in either …

With the Japanese market suffering a significant decline in value in 2008 and the UK enjoying record sales, MCV is predicting that the UK games market will by the end of the year grow to become the second most valuable in the world. Whilst the Japanese market was worth 520,000 …

VALUE/TRENDS 2008 Market Value (2007 in brackets)UK – 4.03bn (3.40bn) year-on-year +18.5% USA – 14.89bn (12.51bn) year-on-year +19%Japan – 4.55bn (5.37bn) year-on-year -15% These numbers show that the USA remains by far the single largest video games market in the world, bettering the value of the UK and Japanese markets …

Futureproof Vision engine to support massively parallel architecture

Specialist law firm to develop sports-related gaming business

Distributor Gem is celebrating its 25th year at the heart of the UK PC and video games trade, a timeline which spans numerous key milestones and is almost as long as the industry itself. The company was formed in 1984 and landed the all important Microsoft contract in 1988. After …

Management and QA tools specialist recruits five staff

It has emerged that Warner Bros is planning a brand new movie in the Tomb Raider franchise – leading some to wonder if this is the first move in the long rumoured takeover of Eidos . Despite Eidos’ recent admission that sales of its most recent Lara Croft title, Tomb …

Tesco has announced the appointment of Laurie McIlwee as group finance director, replacing Andrew Higginson. McIlwee originally joined Tesco in December 2000 as UK finance director, and recently served as distribution director. He takes over his new role as Higginson moves to become chief executive of retailer services. Tesco CEO …