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Play.com appoints new CEO

Apple’s former senior director of Northern and Southern Europe John Perkins is to become the new CEO of online retailer Play.com, according to a report from Cue Entertainment. Perkins has been at Apple for eight years, but will take up his new position at Play.com on April 19th. The retailer’s …

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UK CHARTS: Just Dance back at the top

As the industry’s many triple-A action titles vied for retail success over Easter, it’s Ubisoft’s Wii-only Just Dance that has emerged as the holiday champion by returning to the top spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it knocks last week’s number one, Square …

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Football Manager Live gets reboot

Sports Interactive has re-booted Football Manager Live to breathe new life into the MMO. The game launched in January last year but hasn’t enjoyed the success its developers were hoping for. Football Manager Live has also been dominated by a handful of players, making it unattractive to new gamers. To …

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Red Dead Redemption hits the big screen

Rockstar Games is spending big to ensure Red Dead Redemption becomes its biggest game of the year. The publisher has huge expectations for Redemption following glowing reports from the press, and hopes it can stand besides GTA as its next blockbuster franchise. The Wild West action title will benefit from …

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INTERVIEW: Infinity Ward

Do you think the DLC will give players who don’t own MW2 an extra incentive to buy the full game? Definitely, as the Stimulus Package adds even more depth to an already expansive multiplayer experience and increases the longevity of the online community even further. If players are looking for …

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GoW III sold 1m in week one

We don’t know in what region and we don’t know the exact timeframe, but SCEA’s VP or marketing Peter Dille has stated that God of War III passed the 1m unit sales barrier in just a couple of days”. The news comes courtesy of IGN reporting from the North American …

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DLC goes mainstream with £1m MW2 push

Activision put a mammoth marketing campaign behind the launch of Modern Warfare 2 DLC. 1m is being spent to promote the downloadable Stimulus Package, which adds a host of new multiplayer maps to the world’s fastest-selling game. The publisher has made the investment to spearhead a marketing campaign that targets …

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An even break

Tiga and ELSPA (sorry, UKIE) should be likewise singled out for applause after lobbying so hard and presenting the industry so well to the people that matter during the last two years. Same goes for people like Ian Livingstone – you couldn’t interview the man of late without him (rightly) …

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No 3D or motion could hurt OnLive

Though many think that cloud gaming could be the dominant force in the next generation of gaming, one analyst has predicted that the failure of services such as OnLive to embrace modern gaming trends could leave them floundering. What OnLive will not do, at least not at this point, is …

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