Fast-growing pre-owned games specialist Game Trading Technologies has lifted the lid on a brand new iPhone app that will allow users to monitor the price of their games collection and easily locate the nearest store where they can trade their titles in. Called GameBook Mobile, the app allows iPhone or …

Publisher Square Enix has announced that it has brought forward the release date of Xbox 360, PS3 and PC action title Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days in both Europe and North America. The game will now hit UK and European retail on August 20th and will arrive in the …

City Interactive will up shipments of its FPS, Sniper Ghost Warrior, after it broke into the Top Ten last week. The stealth FPS is City’s first major Xbox 360 and PC release, and hit shelves last Friday. It reached fifth place in the Xbox 360 games chart and tenth place …

UPDATE: An official spokesperson from the US GameStop office has contacted MCV with the following statement: These comments from an unnamed and unknown person claiming to be a GameStop employee are inaccurate. Pre-owned is the cornerstone of our business and, as you say, a key driving force for us. Both …

Apple has removed a number of threads containing complaints about the iPhone 4 from its comment boards. According to Mac User, the vendor deleted comments that referred to an unfavourable review by Consumer Reports, the US equivalent to Which?. The referred article was critical of the widely reported antenna problems …

Having yet to deliver on the high hopes placed upon it by publisher Microsoft, the future of Remedy’s Alan Wake IP remains very much in the balance. NPD’s sales data for North America last month revealed that the game sold 145k units in May – not a terrible performance but …

New Cath Kidston products are set to hit John Lewis stores across the UK. The range – developed by Venom – includes a new DS case and a selection of products for iPod and iPhone. Each product features a look based on designer Cath Kidston’s latest summer patterns. The handheld …

A brand new games distributor specialising in casual titles has emerged – White Room Games. The firm has been set up by former PlayV general manager Luiz Ferreira, who takes on the role of director. White Room will focus on the casual games market and entice smaller publishers and developers …

It’s official: specialist games retail is in decline. According to MCV research, the number of leading game specialists has reduced by around 116 stores year-on-year. Findings come from MCV’s 2010 guide to games retail (find more on page 16) which covers all the latest movements from the top 12 High …

UPDATE: Sony has contacted MCV to say that the Move controller will retail for 24.99, the same price as the PlayStation Eye. Having taken four years to get to the point where each PS3 console sold actually returns a profit, Sony has confirmed that it will be making money from …