Revenues mushroomed from word-of-mouth buzz, Gabe Newell claims

Over 1m dancing games are sold every month on average. That’s an incredible sum, especially considering that before Just Dance arrived in November 2009, dancing games had become a forgotten genre. Since then the dance games market has exploded and there is an astonishing eleven dancing titles on the schedule …

The release of Batman: Arkham City last Friday marks, by all accounts, the arrival of the best game produced for 2011.For retailers, it will be a cash cow. For consumers, a delight to play. But it also contains the most brazen of publishers’ moves to clamp down on pre-owned. You …

Retailers HMV and GAME have once again decided to offer this week’s biggest release for a tantalisingly low price for those willing to trade-in specific games. HMV has slashed the price of EA’s Battlefield 3 to just 2.99 for any customer willing to hand over a copy of either Batman: …

Buyers of the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld will be able to take home new Ridge Racer, Katamari and Shinobido games at launch. The console will arrive on February 22nd 2012 in the UK, US, Europe, Middle East and Australasia. Namco Bandai says the three games will be available at launch …

MCV has teamed up with THQ to give retailers the chance to win copies of the publisher’s biggest upcoming titles. We have five copies of Saints Row: The Third and five copies of WWE ’12 to be giving away, both of which are due for release next month. For your …

The caped crusader swoops onto the High Street today with the arrival of Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham City. The critically acclaimed sequel to the phenomenal Arkham Asylum sees the dark knight battling with some of his most deadly enemies in an open-world prison, with appearances from Hugo Strange, Mr Freeze, …

The UK’s leading High Street games retailer GAME has this morning announced a significant foray into the digital games market. A beta version of a new initiative called GAMEwallet will go live today. It will allow customers to purchase a range of digital content using either their existing Reward Card …

Industry elite lines up for premier digital games event, have you booked your place yet?

Two years on from their high-profile arrival on the American arm of retailer Amazon, digital codes for PSN games have been suddenly yanked from the website. At one stage over 500 pieces of content were being offered. Though the reason for the disappearance remains a mystery, an Amazon rep told …