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IGN may be the old dog of the internet, but it still has plenty of new tricks up its sleeves. As one of the longest-running games websites, it has developed a colossal audience and continues to find new ways to interact with them, such as First Look events and My …

IMAGINE’S ABC RESULTS X360 2010: 24,090July – Dec 2009: 26,532January – June 2009: 26,092 Play 2010: 21,7352009: 24,062 GamesTM 2010: 18,0242009: 20,013 3602010: 11,1832009: 14,116 Cross-portfolio initiativesHelen Laidlaw – Deputy Editor, How It WorksIt’s exciting that Imagine can make the most of our huge gaming audience and expand on it by targeting …

As the creator of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Dance Central, there’s no studio in the world with the same music game heritage as Harmonix. But its ambitions don’t end with the music genre. "For the first time, I see Harmonix potentially evolving past exclusively focusing on music games," CEO …

Twenty years of Sonic will be marked by a global merchandising plan. Sega Europe’s newly expanded licensing team is seeking partnerships in every sector imaginable to create new product lines for the mascot’s 20th anniversary on June 23rd. We have some surprises lined up for Sonic’s anniversary,” Sega Europe’s head …

The accessories market has a new leader in the form of Gioteck. The company doubled its market share last month and became the No.1 third-party peripherals brand in terms of unit sales, according to GfK Chart-Track. Gioteck achieved year-on-year growth of 19.2 per cent in terms of January unit sales …

I remember visiting Best Buy at the launch of its first UK store. There was an excited buzz about the place. This was a retailer that was to open ‘spectacular’ stores the likes of which us Brits have never seen. It would ‘revolutionise’ the way we bought tech, service us …

"My inclination would be to say a system like theJungle is a non-starter right out of the gate. Until they can show meotherwise I just don’t think Panasonic has the right pieces to compete inthis space.” The Jungle is a highly specialised dedicated portable for a non-existent market. This is …

Freshly independent games developer Harmonix has applauded its decision to back the once new Xbox 360 peripheral Kinect with its brand new IP Dance Central. Confirming that the game has to date outperformed fellow Harmonix title and established brand Rock Band 3 at retail, CEO Alex Rigopulos has admitted that …

Capcom’s Devil May Cry could be the next video games IP to get the Hollywood treatment. Variety reports that Screen Gems, the Sony-owned producer of the Resident Evil movie franchise, has acquired the film rights to the series. The deal was brokered by Digital Development Management on behalf of Capcom. …

There’s fresh hope that eye-catching console title Catherine could receive a release in the West. As spotted by BeefJack, a now removed listing for the game yesterday appeared on the website of games retailer GameStop. Until now publisher Atlus has doggedly insisted that the game would not be released in …