The Hut and Incomm have joined IGN, Screen Digest and ELSPA in backing the UK’s biggest games industry conference. Following on from last year’s enormous success, the London Games Conference is focusing on shifts in revenue streams. Special attention will be paid to the impact of digital distribution, multi-player online …

The fast-growing retail chain that sprang up following the collapse of Woolworths opens its 11th store next month. Alworths, which sells games and DVDs plus homeware and more, celebrates the opening of its Llandudno, Wales shop on August 13th. The store will occupy the unit left vacant by the town’s …

Though it’s never likely to emerge as a games platform to rival the likes of iPad or the DS, Amazon has released two games that are compatible with its Kindle ereader device. Shuffled Row and Every Word are both available to download for free right now. Both, unsurprisingly, are word …

Though we’re accustomed to games once exclusive to PSN making the move to retail, Sony has bucked the trend and moved one of its most important retail releases to its digital portal. LittelBigPlanet, which was released in November 2008 on the High Street, will arrive on the UK arm of …

Seeing as the wait for Gran Turismo 5 has been such a long one, Sony is hoping that dedicated fans of the series have had plenty of time to save up for the recently announced 149.99 Signature Edition of the game. Included in the metallic black metal case is a …

EA has confirmed that it has delayed the release of Crytek’s tech-heavy console shooter Crysis until the last quarter of its current financial year. This means the game will not longer arrive before Christmas, as had been previously suggested, but will instead hit retail some time between January and March …

Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that last week’s new release Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty sold over 1m copies worldwide in its first 24 hours of availability. The numbers have already cemented its position as the best selling game of 2010. Furthermore, it went on to sell in excess of …

A new study entitled ‘The D2 Report: Discs & Digital – The Business of Home Entertainment Retailing’ from the Entertainment Merchants Association claims that traditional boxed product still accounts for the vast bulk of sales in the video games market. It claims that combined DVD and Blu-ray sales totalled $17.9bn …

GAME’s iPhone app is one of the most downloaded of its type. The app is one of the Top 20 Free Utilities on iTunes. This week the retailer issued an update to the app that adds the ability to find the nearest GAME via GPS and then get directions through …

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