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Digital Molecular Matter available for game engines and as Maya plug-in

What have been the highlights for Rising Star over the past 12 months? Did any titles perform beyond expectations? The last 12 months have brought us many highlights, including the continuing sales by Nintendo of Harvest Moon DS, which means that we have now sold in excess of half a …

French publisher Ubisoft has confirmed the UK release date of its upcoming voice-controlled RTS, Tom Clancy: Endwar – it will hit UK retail on November 7th. Other news to emerge from the publisher’s release schedule includes the slight slippage of Gearbox’s Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway on PC, which will …

Total sales like-for-like sales at Argos dropped 1.6 per cent in the retailer’s second quarter, down to 927 million. Growth remained positive in consumer electronics, however – but was at a lower rate than in the previous quarter. Furniture and homewares continued to show declining sales in challenging market conditions. …

Disney have signed up to become one of five main conference sponsors at next month’s Handheld Learning Conference 2008. The firm joins Nintendo, Apple, T-Mobile and Studywiz as head sponsors. Cindy Rose, the Senior Vice-President of the Disney Interactive Media Group, will also be speaking at the conference. "We are …

A new report entitled the 2009 Corporate Equity Index, compiled by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, has praised three of gaming’s most high-profile companies for their treatment of gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. GamePolitics reports that EA, Microsoft and retailer GameStop were amongst the many companies scoring …

As part of its press statement confirming the previously rumoured but now confirmed price cuts for its range of Xbox 360 SKUs in the UK, Microsoft has also seemingly nailed down a pre-Christmas arrival for its exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content. A snippet from the statement reads: Continuing …

Educator joins association to develop relevant curricula

Retro fans may still be weeping after the news that Gamestation has burned the vast bulk of its retro games stock – but at least there’s something to rejoice in the news that the retailer is going to be the exclusive stockist of a new Sinclair Spectrum compendium for PC. …

High Street retailer Zavvi has heralded a successful first year on the market by announcing strong improvements over the performance of the company it bought out in 2007 – Virgin Megastores. Sales in its online operations increased an impressive 148 per cent over the last twelve months compared to the …