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A new update on the GOG site suggests that the site is indeed closing down after all. It reads: "First of all, we apologize everyone for the whole situation and closing GOG.com. We do understand the timing for taking down the site caused confusion and many users didn’t manage to …

Sony’s PlayStation 3 has now overtaken Wii to become the best selling home console of 2010 in Japan. In total since January Sony’s machine has shifted 1,017,094 units in the territory compared to Wii’s 1,015,513, according to numbers from Media Create reported by VG247. Coupled with the most recent data …

Keiji Inafune, Capcom’s global head of R&D, has in a new interview made it clear his Japan is finished” statement from Tokyo Game Show 2009 made one year ago was not a misquote. Speaking to the New York Times some twelve months later, Inafune reiterated this belief. I look around …

Third publishers who continue to treat Wii with scepticism may be letting opportunities slip them by, THQ CEO Brian Farrell told MCV. Do we see big growth prospects on a platform that’s been out for so long? No. But are there opportunities? Absolutely,” he stated. Some times you have to …

After a tough couple of years THQ appears to be on the road to recovery. How have you managed it?The whole restructuring has been focused on the right titles. I think the entire industry realised that there were too many products. Back in October 2008, we said we were only …

He’s best known for co-founding Xbox and leading the big money $375m buyout of UK studio Rare. But now Ed Fries is looking at how digital distribution is upending the industry – and says retailers need to take note. Talking to MCV as he joined online art content firm Mixamo, …

Mastertronic claims Sniper: Ghost Warrior proves smaller publishers don’t need a massive marketing budget to make their game a success. The City Interactive FPS has sold over 60,000 units since July, and is still present in the Top Five of the Xbox 360 chart – no small feat for a …

Yet another PC mag has closed at Future this week. The media firm told MCV it will be closing PC Answers – just as the final edition of PC Zone hits newsagents as well. PC Answers’ final issue will go on sale next month, allowing Future to focus on other titles. …

The Daily Mail has published an article claiming professional gangs of traders are buying up vast quantaties of the UK’s iPhone 4 stock and shipping it abroad. The tabloid claims this is "depriving ordinary customers of getting their hands on them." Apparently, these hoards of ‘runners’ are paid around 70 …

Are you on the lookout for a man that says what he thinks and doesn’t mind risking upsetting people? Well here he is – Bobby Kotick is at it again. This time the outspoken business leader and Activision publishing CEO has stated that he’d like to start charging gamers to …