Following a spate of aggressive promotions from the likes of Morrisons, Woolworths and Asda, leading industry figures have urged retail to hold fire on further cuts to new release pricing. With fears over the economy at an all time high, ultra-crowded release schedules and retailers fighting for supremacy, many are …

It might originally have been based upon the surprise birth of a little fella in a barn over 2000 years ago, but things have changed. In the games industry and at retail, Christmas has become an all or nothing scrapfest for the consumer pound. And of the three platform holders, …

(a) An atrocious novelty record reaching inexplicable heights in the charts; (b) Vaguely sinister old men in costume inviting kids they don’t know to sit on their knees; (c) Continual reminders that ‘there are only X amount of shopping days until Christmas’, creating widespread panic for parents in a desperate …

Warner Bros. has told MCV that it is readying an industry-leading approach to movie-based games with the digital download-only release of Watchmen next year. Watchmen, the film based on the cult comic books, is due out in March next year, with the game set to take place before the events …

Blimey. If we’d have known how much of a stink our earlier news story on Gizmondo would have kicked up… well, we’d have made a lot more of it, to be honest. It seems that the legacy of the company hasn’t won it many friends in the industry. But what …

Mega-publisher Activision Blizzard has revealed that Crash: Mind Over Mutant will hit retail on October 31st, and The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon will arrive on November 21st. Both titles had disappeared off release schedules following the merger between Vivendi and Activision, but it has now been confirmed …

An important step toward what most consider to be the inevitable digital delivery future arrives this week when EA’s Burnout Paradise becomes available to download for PS3 users via Sony’s PlayStation Network Store. The move was first confirmed last month. The European price has not yet been confirmed, though US …

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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 …