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Mirroring its success in both the Japanese and US markets, Nintendo’s Wii outing Super Smash Bros: Brawl has beaten off the competition this week to claim the number one spot in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. Last week’s number one, LucasArts’ LEGO Indiana Jones: Original Adventures, is pegged back …

Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is sitting proudly atop three of the leading sales charts in Europe this week. For the week ending June 22nd, the stealth-action classic is No.1 in Spain, Germany and Sweden. According to Next-Gen.biz, MGS4 has already sold more than one million …

Activision boss says lack of Government support means high cost of living, which impacts staff happiness

Former EA exec Neil Young forms ng:moco, focused on high-end handsets

Eidos has promised the UK games media that it still has a working internal PR team, after reports suggested it had gutted its communications department. Online reports posted today quote PR executives at the company suggesting that the recent decision to enlist Barrington Harvey as a third-party agency meant that …

Open-source starter kit developed by Korean studio Zepetto

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Bill Gates officially spent his last day at Microsoft on Friday, bidding farewell to the company he started in his garage in 1975. According to AFP, the Microsoft co-founder, 52, will now focus on running the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , aimed at fighting disease, reducing poverty, and improving …

PS3 platform holder Sony has finally released some concrete details about its PS3 Trophy system that will be introduced with the machine’s next firmware update, 2.40. In a new update on the US PlayStation Blog, Sony’s director of PSN Operations Eric Lempel outlined what Sony has in mind for its …

More weight has been thrown behind speculation that Microsoft is set to cut the price of Xbox 360 in the US before E3 next month. The Hollywood Reporter cites ‘industry sources’ suggesting that the platform holder will drop the SRP of the 20GB Pro model by $50 to $299 in …