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UPDATE: Event date changed - will now take place September 17th-20th

A new study by Electronic Entertainment Design and Research claims that Wii titles are far more likely to receive an early publisher wholesale discount than titles for either Xbox 360 or PS3. The practice, known as ‘price protection’ in the US, describes a publisher lowering the trade price of a …

Earlier this month, Evolution's Nigel Kershaw rallied against gamers disappointed with Motorstorm's failure to mimic the 'concept movie' shown in 2005, saying that 'target renders don't matter'. Here, Axis Animation MD Richard Scott offers his opinion of why target renders do indeed matterâ?¦

Peter Moore, the outspoken boss of EA Sports, has admitted that the publisher has had trouble establishing its annual sports franchises on Nintendo’s Wii – a challenge it pins on the massively popular Wii Sports. EA’s most recent Madden title sold over two million units on Xbox 360, PS3 and …

This time last year we began to understand that US sub-prime mortgages had infected the entire financial system, bringing on an acute case of credit crunch. Markets have fallen ever since, as relief at the unprecedented global government assistance that’s been doled out at what’s left of the banking industry …

Retailers will need to use every tactic at their disposal” – that’s the message from a leading High Street analyst today as it predicts a gloomy December at retail despite Chancellor Alistair Darling announcement of a VAT drop yesterday. Synovate Retail Performance has claimed that it now expects non-food shopping …

SCEA has denied recent reports that the company is looking to re-evaluate the price of PS3 early next year. Amongst the plethora of titbits revealed in SCEE’s leaked internal meeting yesterday was the claim that the company intends to make the European PS3 price more competitive” next March. However, a …

Kern becomes chairman and CCO, Weingartner appointed president and CEO

Sony has launched a brand new web portal for its long-awaited PS3 social networking service Home, adding weight to the claims that the service should arrive before the end of the year. In addition, in the last week Sony is believed to have sent out an additional 100,000 invites to …

Overlord script honoured at WGGB's 2008 bash