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Its price is to be cut in the UK this Friday , and it recently pipped PS3 in the US August sales battle – but now Xbox 360 has managed its most staggering victory yet by topping Wii in the weekly Japanese hardware charts to become the nation’s best selling …

A new survey from Pew Internet & American Life Project has shown just how deeply gaming has infiltrated North American life – with the results suggesting that 97 per cent of 12 to 17 year olds are active gamers. The results were fairly consistent amongst various ethnic groups, and even …

Peter Moore claims the skilled UK team is no longer important to modern gamers

Web giant wants Half-Life creator's digital distribution platform Steam says report

Woolworths has reported group losses of almost 100 million for the six months to the start of August. Sales for the retail business were 660.7 million in the half-year, down 3.2 per cent like-for-like. The company’s entertainment wholesale and publishing arm – including its BBC Worldwide joint venture 2entertain – …

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 …