The games industry’s charity is hoping to raise both its profile and much-needed funds at this week’s MCV Awards in London. Up for grabs are a PlayStation 3 with SingStar Queen, a Nintendo DSi console, a Logitech Pure-Fi Dream speaker dock, a Logitech HD Powerline kit and 500Gb media server …

GAME has this morning finally, for the first time, started to publicly discuss the value of its pre-owned offer as part of its end-of-year results. Lisa Morgan, GAME CEO, today revealed that pre-owned games represent 18 per cent of turnover for the financial year – during which the firm reported …

The 2009 Develop Awards return on Wednesday, July 15th. But what are the categories, how does anyone win and who won last time? Read on to find outâ?¦

It has been known for a while that the upcoming duo of EA Grand Slam Sports Tennis and Tiger Woods 10 will support Nintendo’s gesture-enhancing Wii MotionPlus, but now the publisher has confirmed that both titles will include the device in the box. Both SKUs including the MotionPlus will retail …

Best Buy has said that it is looking at opening up as many as 30 stores in the UK, but warned that the date the first will open is still up in the air and may even further into 2010. Click here to see the fulls tory on PC Retail.

The UK annual inflation measured by the Retail Prices Index has for the first time since 1960 today revealed that the UK economy is in a state of deflation – but video games remain one of the few categories increasing in price. The BBC reports that the RPI fell to …

The UK’s leading retailer Tesco has reported record pre-tax profits of 3.13bn for the year ending February 28th 2009 – a ten per cent increase over the same period a year before. On average the supermarket saw sales in excess of 1bn every single week, with total sales for the …

Sony is to ramp up its emphasis on PSP’s impressive video on demand technology next month with the launch of two new bundles concentrating on the Go!View service. Arriving on May 8th, the Go!View pack will include a black PSP-3000, 2GB Memory Stick Duo, mini USB cable and two month …

Microsoft is to launch a brand new Xbox 360 Elite SKU at North American retail next month called the Xbox 360 Game of the Year Bundle. The package, which was announced by Major Nelson, includes an Elite Xbox 360 console, which as always will come in black and include a …

Sales monitor GfK-ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it hopes to set up a chart of UK digital downloads by the end of this year. The company said it was in ‘active discussions’ with a number of leading providers of downloadable digital content with a view to inking a deal …