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North American retailer GameStop has revealed to Newsweek’s Level Up blog that 64 per cent of its first-week GTA IV allocation was sold on Xbox 360. However, in a phone conversation with Newsweek, PlayStation’s senior vice president of Marketing Peter Dille has claimed that the PS3 consumer is ‘overindexing’ on …

Activision has announced that a new iteration of its classic Pifall franchise will be released on Wii in the autumn. Pitfall: The Big Adventure is in development at Activision studio Edge of Reality. Pitfall is one of the most legendary franchises in the history of videogames, so we look forward …

Sorry, Ubisoft Montreal: our monthly developer chart crowns Nintendo king once again

Studios such as Frontier and Gameloft lead the charge for Euro roll out of download service

A recent report by New York’s Centre for an Urban Future has said the core games industry is badly represented in the Big Apple – but adds that the city it is one of the leading clusters in North America when it comes to casual games. The report, called Getting …

Chinese mobile developer adopts engine for push into MMO sector

'Unique' games could be developed locally and released globally for 360 says Bill Gates

We ran a story a couple of weeks back about your increasing focus on western markets – how do you plan to do this? Do you think licensed products is a key element of this? We will decide this on an ongoing basis. Ultimately, the games we produce must be …

Rockstar’s GTA IV has retained the top spot in the ChartTrack/ELSPA All Formats Chart for a second week – despite a massive 77 per cent drop in sales. The record-breaking title still managed to outsell Nintendo’s Wii Fit – which held onto second spot – by 4-to-1 in the week. …

Eidos has hired Roy Meredith as its first general manager of the Championship Manager franchise – and he’s promising to lift the franchise out of the doldrums”. Meredith joins from EA, where he has spent the last two years as global marketing director of the firm’s studios. Before that, he …