The Angry Birds will soon be flying onto screens in a new animated form. Rovio CEO Mikael Hed has announced the company has begun work on an cartoon series based on its best-selling iPhone game, according to the New York Post. We have been looking at that for quit a …

It was no surprise that ACTIVISION’S Call of Duty: Black Ops was the biggest game of 2010. The FPS sold 2m units in its first week, generating record revenues in the process. The game is one of just two Activision games in the entire Top 50, with Modern Warfare 2 …

FOR THE second year EA is the UK’s biggest publisher, with the likes of FIFA and Battlefield in the Top 10. Activision rises to No.2 in value terms as there was less discounting on Call of Duty than in ‘09. UBISOFT shot up the rankings thanks to big sales of Just Dance …

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The last few years have seen 505 deliver diversity and success on a scale sufficient for it to no longer be called ‘the Cooking Mama company’. If you look at its most recent releases and its 2011 slate, it certainly seems determined not to be pigeonholed. Last year its pillar …

Gran Turismo 5 owners will be able to use Remote Races as of next month. The feature, known to fans as Gran Tursimo Anywhere, was announced before the game’s release but was removed from the retail version. Remote Races allows GT5 players to control their B-Spec races on their PS3 …

Online retailer The Hut Group has seen its sales spike 70 per cent. Sales are up from 51m in 2009 to 87m in 2010. More than 80 per cent of these sales were generated by the Group’s own websites, including Zavvi.com and Thehut.com. The rest was generated through services to …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has returned to the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. EA’s FIFA 11, which sits in second place this week, had pipped the shooter to the top spot in the last two weeks. In fact, it had looked as if …

Publisher THQ has predicted that upcoming triple-A shooter Homefront will make more money than either of the company’s big fighting franchises, WWE or UFC. "I don’t think [WWE and UFC] make more money than I expect Homefront to make," core games executive vice president Danny Bilson stated in an interview …