Xbox 360 sales rocketed up 32 per cent over the weekend, official UK retail monitor GFK-ChartTrack has confirmed to MCV. The console outsold the PS3, which saw an eight per cent drop in its sales compared to the previous weekend. MCV broke the news last night that Xbox 360 had …

There’s a busy day ahead for retail this Friday, with plenty of hard-hitting titles heading for shelves – and with something for everyone many will be hoping for the biggest Friday for quite some time. It’s hard to pick a headline act out of the assorted collection, but Ubisoft will …

Publishers: Instead of the nation’s geriatrics wrinkling their brow at your Brain Training clone, you’ve got a warehouse full of returned DS games and a team of wincing sales execs. Retailers: You’ve missed out on this year’s Cooking Mama bargains – and filled up shelves with equine/kitty/puzzle claptrap that you …

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association has spoken out in support of Atari’s decision to largely abandon boxed product and embrace online distribution. The publishers’ body said that the company’s decision to move 90 per cent of its content online in the near future lent ‘further weight to PEGI’s …

You may have missed the �70m (£55m/$110m) investment in German casual massively multiplayer online game developer/publisher Bigpoint in June this year because it went largely unmentioned in the specialist games press.

Senior regional director of Microsoft UK Neil Thompson has told MCV that the recent price cuts are the opening gambit in a peak season which will see tens of millions” spent on marketing the Xbox brand. Microsoft undercut market leader Wii in the battle for the gaming pound this week …

Peter Moore had predicted the death of boxed product – and promised EA will be at the forefront of the digital revolution. In an interview with The Guardian, he said EA will take a different direction that iTunes, which he called a rip-off”. We’ve gone from connected consumers being the …

UK supermarket Morrisons has set its sights on producing a new ‘unique’ non-food and entertainment offering. Following the company’s massive price cuts on games this month, CEO Marc Bolland has said he is keen to widen the appeal of the retailer. According to Retail Week, the grocer’s home and leisure …

Korea (specifically, the southern region of Korea officially called the Republic of Korea) is infamous as the modern capital of gaming in Asia.

South Korea is home to over 200 games developers â?? the majority of which self-publish their games online for PC â?? a not unimpressive level of scale for a country with a population just shy of 50m.