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Sega’s Mario and Sonic and the Olympic Games has to make do with second spot in this week’s ELSPA/ChartTrack all formats chart, while Activision’s Call of Duty 4 is down one place to three. Burnout Paradise’s top selling debut week is split between the Xbox 360 and PS3 formats, which …

New publisher nabs rights to another title from UK studio just days after opening UK office

Format holder increasing internal support for home console; internal DS development gets slight cut

Add-on for Virtools 4 quickens prototyping process

Future versions could contain physics, AI or inverse kinematics engines

Toshiba has spoken out in response to Woolworths’ announcement that it is to phase out HD-DVD from its stores in March. The retailer revealed today that it would only sell the format via its website in future, after Blu-Ray outsold HD-DVD by ten-to-one in its stores over Christmas. European assistant …

Cambridge developer to launch casual portal

The leading games retailer can begin the integration of the two companies in earnest after the Competition Commission finally approved GAME’s 74 million acquisition of Gamestation – but that doesn’t mean a summer of major upheaval, said deputy CEO and group finance director David Thomas. We’ll start to implement the …

Mobile developer becomes 'official mobile partner' of club

In this exclusive roundtable discussion put together by UK single-format magazine 360, leading names from Britain's games development scene discuss the state of play for the country's industryâ?¦