Facebook hired public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to try get the press onside regarding Google’s strategy of collecting information from Facebook. The episode began to unfold on Tuesday when USA Today reported on the Burson-Marsteller representatives which had offered to ghost write opinion piece articles criticising Google’s ‘Social Circle’ feature. The …

Last week UK retail sold the lowest number of games in almost five years. 573,506 games were sold through UK shops last week, a week-on-week drop of 19 per cent and the lowest sales figure since June 2006. The UK games market value also dropped last week, 22 per cent …

Good news at last – more money was made from games software in April 2011 than the same period last year. According to UKIE/GfK Chart-Track data, retailers made almost 70m from game sales last month, a modest increase of 1.8 per cent compared to April 2010. It’s the first time …

April has been a very kind month. In the UK we get glorious weather, in the US they get an excellent performance from video games at retail. The latest NPD numbers show that the month was 20 per cent up on the same period in 2010, reaching a total value …

The PC games pioneer bares all on Valve's unique dev culture, and shares his grand plan for the future.

Retail sources have for the first time indicated that PS3 console trade-ins have dramatically risen as the controversial PSN outage continues. In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” an unnamed store manager ‘at a major UK retailer’ told Edge. …

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Why do you think you won the MCV Award for best digital distribution team?Within the digital team we strive to not only be the best possible partner for our digital retailers and distributors, but also just as importantly for the end user too. We like to think that we are …

Retailer GAME has named Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft as the headline sponsor of its upcoming GAMEfest consumer show in Birmingham. The deal will see Microsoft branding on all pre-event marketing and afford it a heavy presence at the show itself and a prime space at the venue. MS has …

Blur vs Oasis. Tyson vs Bruno. Now Battlefield vs Call of Duty. The best bitter rivalries in entertainment and culture are the ones most fiercely fought, but where one can’t survive without the other to validate it. Or one can’t survive without the other to generate coverage for it. At …