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Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8 million copies within 24 hours, the publisher revealed. Wrath of the Lich King beat sales for last year’s WoW expansion The Burning Crusade, which managed 2.4 millions sales in 24 hours in January. Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime …

Mobile developer releases three titles for Google platform

General Manager: David Yarnton, NintendoFor the top, we go Down Under. With all Nintendo’s recent success, cynicism dictates that it should be easy to sneer at their UK boss. However, Yarnton’s infective cheer, enviable experience and hugely respected standing ensures this would never happen; all qualities we’d adore having at …

European MD: Chris Deering (Codemasters)If Ken Kutaragi (our worldwide chairman) is the global ‘Father of PlayStation’, then Chris Deering is most certainly its cool uncle. It’s little wonder we picked him as an MCV Legend. Put simply, PSOne and PS2 share an installed base of over 40 million in PAL …

Chairman: Ken KutargiA surprising choice? Get out of it. Who better to take the reigns of our entire operation than the true ‘father’ of the most successful series of consoles in history? Just on the software side, this is a man who oversaw the biggest boom in Sony’s first-party games, …

We’d like to let you know that you can read the November 21st issue of MCV magazine online – simply point your browser here and turn the pages . As an alternative, you can still download a Print Edition PDF from our website. To access and download this file, please …

The industry has had to wait a long time to catch its first glimpse of EA’s upcoming Fight Night Round 4, but the moment will arrive at next month’s Spike TV Video Game Awards, Kotaku reports.. EA officially announced the title in May, but to date only selected retail partners …

GameStop CFO David W. Carlson has revealed that company doesn’t expect to meet demand with Wii stock this Christmas – and that standout title Wii Fit is in very, very short supply”. Speaking in the company’s Q3 earnings call (a full transcript of which you can find here), Carlson also …

American kickboxing specialist Jon Fitch has reportedly been kicked off the Ultimate Fighting Championship after refusing to sign over his likeness to THQ for life, Gamespot reports. THQ currently owns the UFC video game rights, and part of its deal requires fighters to sign over the rights to their digital …

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