PC specialist Excalibur has hit out at leading publishers over their lack of support for retail in the digital marketplace. The firm – whose titles include Farming Simulator 2011, Bus Driver and Dive to the Titanic – believes publishers should work more closely with High Street retailers to develop new …

PC MMO title World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sold 3.3m copies in its first 24 hours on sale, developer Blizzard has announced. The company says the numbers make it the best selling PC title of all time. Previous WoW release Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8m copies in its first …

To mark its tenth successive year in business Gameseek has given its website a major overhaul. The specialist internet retailer says it is also increasing its product range as it looks to reach new consumers. Gameseek now stocks over 230,000 products consisting of the latest video games on multiple formats, …

Amazon has stated that the outage that it suffered on Satudrady was a result of hardware failure and not online ‘hacktivism’ as has been claimed. An spokesman for the online retailer told Reuters that: The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in …

Amazon’s own-branded monochrome e-reader Kindle is proving a surprisingly popular games machine. Kotaku spotted that according to the retailers Kindle charts, which show the best selling titles of the last 90 days, eight of the top 12 best sellers for the device were games. Games also managed to oust books …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is starting to look like a permanent feature at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week as the shooter claims its fourth UK No.1 of the year. The only game so far that’s been able to (temporarily) dethrone …

Amazon.co.uk has rolled out a trade-in service that allows users to mail in games in exchange for credit. The move comes following a similar pre-owned offering on the US Amazon website. Consumers can currently trade-in Fallout: New Vegas on PS3 for 16.50, Medal of Honor on Xbox 360 for 21, …

But Gem’s hiring of Alex Croft is a refreshing moment that proves there is still much to come from the country’s box shifters. It’ll be interesting to watch how the company grows and grows with him on board. The firm has long since established itself as a force to be, …

Nintendo DS was the best selling console of November in the US, according to NPD. Nintendo said its family of DS products sold 1.5 million units last month, driven by the new red SKU. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 was the biggest selling home console by shifting 1.37 million units – an …

Home entertainment distributor MBL Group has posted a 78 per cent dip in profits for the six months ending September 30th. Year-on-year profits dropped from 3.2m to 700,000, while revenues fell from 78.2m to 71.1m. MBL distributes entertainment goods including games, DVDs and CDs to retailers such as Morrisons. It …