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The latest data from the Retail Traffic Index from analyst firm SPSL shows that the number of people shopping throughout December was down 3.2 per cent compared to the same month in 2006 – worse than SPSL’s prediction of 2.1 per cent drop. The numbers are in stark contrast to …

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PSP platform holder Sony is set to lift the lid on the previously mentioned Skype service for its handheld at next week’s CES show is Las Vegas, if information on the company’s website is to be believed. The PSP section of Sony’s CES website states: Call friends, talk trash to …

Online games portal Next-Gen is claiming that ‘a source’ has told it that Midway is sizing up SCi/Eidos for a possible merger. SCi last year openly admitted to be courting the business world for offers for the company. And Midway and SCi were said to have been in preliminary talks …

With release dates slipping as titles need â??further development timeâ?? and louder groans from coders regarding the trials of contemporary CPUs, we look at how the increasingly contradictory nature of development â?? with studios asked to make one game for a variety of different machines â?? has impacted the industryâ?¦

Online retailer Play.com is celebrating a record breaking Q4 for the firm which delivered year-on-year growth of 24 per cent, with December itself showing a 29 per cent improvement compared to 2006. Customer activity peaked on December 3rd, with Play processing an average of 700 orders per minute and enjoying …

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Following a period of ongoing disruption to Xbox Live that saw many festive gamers miss out on a week of sitting in their pants shooting American teenagers online, rumours claim that Microsoft is planning a peace offering to those who pay a subscription to access the service. Problems with the …

Although weâ??re over a year into the current hardware cycle, itâ??s safe to say that itâ??s only with a recent crop of releases that the generation is finally living up to claims that new hardware can enable more believable characters.