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Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV is 2008’s biggest selling game so far, shifting a whopping 6.29 million copies since January 1st. New stats from the Top Global Markets Report – compiled of data from GFK (Europe), NPD (US), ChartTrack (UK) and Enterbrain (Japan) – shows the title has sold just …

The might of territory sales monitors GFK (Europe), Chart-Track (UK), NPD (US) and Enterbrain (Japan) have joined forces to form a new global sales monitoring ‘supergroup’. The new coalition will release the Top Global Markets Report, which will integrate point-of-sale (POS) data for video game software sales in the world’s …

Activision has just told MCV that Quantum of Solace hasn’t slipped for the UK market and will be released October 31st as originally planned. The publisher told us that the comments regarding an apparent delay in release for the upcoming Bond title were intended for the German market only, and …

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Dark Rock Games hopes to make Wales a popular development region

Spinor's game engine ships with commercial game code

Do you have a pic of your sales director doing the dosey doe with Lara Croft? Was your store manager ever snapped burning his Carmageddon POS stuff? Perhaps your MD had his arms round a man dressed as Croc – with a face that said ‘this is definitely going to …

Ubisoft has opened a new business office in Warsaw, Poland. Edge reports that the HQ will focus on growing the firn’s market share in Eastern Europe. The publisher announced the news at Leipzig Games Convention yesterday. Ubisoft Eastern Europe export area manager Rose-Marie Nargaud will head up the office. "Opening …

Cheaper and free technology looks to address concerns over relevance of education

One of the most anticipated games of the past two years has finally been given a firm release date – with MCV exclusively revealing that Bethesda’s Fallout 3 will arrive on all formats in Europe on October 31st. The hotly-tipped action RPG from the creator of smash hit The Elder …