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The games industry’s recession-proof credentials have been given another shot in the arm with the news that NPD stats show the North American games market hit $2.91 billion in November – a value ten per cent up on the same month in 2007. Year-to-date numbers are also impressing, with the …

Today’s closing down sale represents what is probably the last hurrah for the UK’s celebrated Woolworths brand – but top retail figures in the UK games industry have warned that there’s still bad news to come. Take someone like Woolies out of the retail equation and you’re looking at a …

Talk in the industry is all about the fallout, and some in the games market believe that there’s still a lot of bad news to come from the demise of Woolworths. But with the retailer still in the throws of what may well be its demise, the thoughts of the …

Sega is confident it can defy the economic climate in 2009, with a wealth of new IP to the market in 2009. The publisher enjoyed a stellar 2008, with Wii sensation Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games sailing past the two million mark. The firm also recorded its first …

Unreal Script IDE now officially integrated into Unreal Engine 3

Social gaming widget to unite mobile and PC internet users

Supermarkets continued to irk retailers – to the extent that not only were they characterised as the biggest threat to UK retail but many also tried to ironically nominate them as ‘best distributor’. And, as usual, most retailers would love to swap occupations with some of the world’s leading video …

UK video games companies have thrown cash in the face of the economic slowdown – spending an incredible 139 million on Q4 marketing as other trades tighten their belts. The huge figure has funded a deluge of above-the-line advertising in the past three months, dominating newspapers and TV ad breaks …

SCEE president David Reeves has told MCV that Sony currently has no plans for a ‘PSP2′. The exec moved to debunk web reports which earlier this month claimed the firm had signed a memory chip deal for the device. No, there are currently no plans for a PSP2. I go …

As Woolworths’ closing down sale gets underway today, leading platform holder Nintendo has spoken exclusively to MCV regarding claims in UK newspaper The Sun about the amount of debt owed to platform holders by the Woolworths-owned EUK. The tabloid yesterday claimed that EUK is expected to go into liquidation within …