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PC gaming is technically so far advanced compared to consoles that it is effectively ‘a generation ahead’, according to the boss of Crysis and Crysis 2 developer Crytek. PC is easily a generation ahead right now. With 360 and PS3, we believe the quality of the games beyond Crysis 2 …

The market boom that enveloped the video games market in 2008 will never again be recaptured, analyst Screen Digest has warned. A gradual eradication of RRP, the disruption of the console hardware cycle and the rise of digital means that the High Street has only decline to come, analyst Ben …

The video games market can generally be divided into three major forms of consumption. First you have the traditional sector of console and PC games, the old world of packaged media, which is still by far the biggest market. Next, there’s the downloads and digital distribution market, which is fast-growing, …

As the most successful home console the world has ever known, Sony’s PS2, celebrates its tenth birthday in Europe, former SCEE president Chris Deering has said that the PS3 could yet go on to eclipse its accomplishments. Now entering its 11th year, the PS2 has sold a total of 147.6m …

The million-selling Sniper Elite franchise will return to the UK market as a Wii game at the end of the year, handled by Creative Distribution. The game is based on the original 2005 release which debuted on PS2 and spread to other formats including Xbox and PC. Sniper Elite on …

IT distribution firm EntaTech wants to grow its share of the games business. The company has been supplying PC gaming products for a number of years, but is beginning to increase its presence in the sector – most recently with a range of Call of Duty peripherals. Furthermore, the company’s …

Consumer festival GameCity 5 drew 20,000 more attendees than last year’s event. The event in Nottingham – which ran from Wednesday, October 27th to Saturday, October 30th in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University – saw 45,000 people attend, up from last year’s 25,000. Consumers had the chance to play the …

Future Publishing has posted a slight increase in profit for the year ending September 30th 2010. The period saw profits of 8.3m, up from the 7.6m in the same period a year before. Revenue fell one per cent to 151.5m. Net debt was reduced by nearly 50 per cent to …

A study by US analyst Cowen & Company has said that fear of buying a scratched disk, missing out on the in-game manual or simply the urge to own new goods is the key motivation behind those who dislike buying pre-owned games. In total 54 per cent of those who …

PlayStation move stock is likely to be hard to come by until 2011, platform holder Sony has warned. SCEA’s senior VP or marketing Peter Dille told VentureBeat that Sony misjudged the demand for the stand-alone Move controllers” and that stores are running low across Europe, America and Japan. That bodes …