With the fifth game in the series having recently arrived at UK retail, North American publisher Majesco Entertainment has revealed that total sales of the franchise in the region have now passed the 4m unit mark. To read the full story, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.

European gamers are to be treated to an exclusive Guitar Hero Metallica bundle when the latest iteration of the hit music franchise arrives at retail on May 29th. The pack will include a copy of the game, a wireless guitar peripheral and a Metallica-themed faceplate depicting the iconic skull motif. …

The development team working on The Sims 3 has yet to even consider what expansions might follow the full release of the game next month, executive producer Ben Bell has told CasualGaming.biz. With the release of The Sims 3 less than a month away, you might be expecting to see …

The company has scooped three MCV Awards and recently posted excellent end-of-year figures. What’s the secret?It’s because we have a fantastic and perfectly placed product proposition within our stores. As we know, the UK video games market last year reached 4bn – which was a stunning performance for us overall, …

This month we've published the latest edition of the Develop 100. The Develop site is publishing major extracts from the book - here we present the details of positions 1 to 10â?¦

This month we've published the latest edition of the Develop 100. The Develop site is publishing major extracts from the book - here we present the details of positions 11 to 30â?¦

This month we've published the latest edition of the Develop 100. The Develop site is publishing major extracts from the book - here we present the details of positions 31 to 50â?¦

Whether Blu-ray’s rise to ascendancy will gather the required pace needed before the mainstream adaptation of digital movie downloads arrives is yet to be seen, but sales of HD discs players have performed well year-on-year. TechRadar reports that annual Blu-ray player sales climbed 72 per cent in 2008 in North …

Somerfield has unveiled a shock warplan to become a leading games retailer – as fellow supermarkets Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s aggressively expand their buying teams in a bid to grab more market share. In yet another new route to market for UK publishers, The Co-operative, which bought Somerfield for 1.5 …

Indeed, the latest GfK-ChartTrack figures this week suggest healthy hardware sales and a slightly up software sector. No wonder, then that we continue to chronicle the expanding nature of games retail. As HMV CEO Simon Fox says elsewhere in this issue, the retail landscape has changed more in the last …