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Peripherals specialist Exspect has its eye on chomping into its rivals’ market share next year – with the help of parent company Gem. The company has told MCV that it has already won some ‘major accounts’, which it will announce later this year – and that there is ‘no question’ …

The Guinness Book Of Records has told MCV that its new Gamer’s Edition annual will offer retailers a spectacular additional source of revenue when it is released on February 8th. The title represents the first time that GBOR has concentrated purely on games for a publication – and the company …

Whilst most of the recent BioWare rumour-mongering has revolved around the possibility of another instalment to the successful Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic series, the latest speculation claims that the EA-owned developer is already hard at work on Jade Empire 2. The original Jade Empire was released on …

Whilst we all may take wireless joypads for granted in these days of next-gen technological wonder, there was a time when Nintendo’s WaveBird controller for the GameCube was the leader in wireless pad tech – but now it seems that the fan-favourite controller has come to an end. GoNintendo reckons …

The latest data from the Retail Traffic Index from analyst firm SPSL shows that the number of people shopping throughout December was down 3.2 per cent compared to the same month in 2006 – worse than SPSL’s prediction of 2.1 per cent drop. The numbers are in stark contrast to …

PSP platform holder Sony is set to lift the lid on the previously mentioned Skype service for its handheld at next week’s CES show is Las Vegas, if information on the company’s website is to be believed. The PSP section of Sony’s CES website states: Call friends, talk trash to …

Online games portal Next-Gen is claiming that ‘a source’ has told it that Midway is sizing up SCi/Eidos for a possible merger. SCi last year openly admitted to be courting the business world for offers for the company. And Midway and SCi were said to have been in preliminary talks …

Online retailer Play.com is celebrating a record breaking Q4 for the firm which delivered year-on-year growth of 24 per cent, with December itself showing a 29 per cent improvement compared to 2006. Customer activity peaked on December 3rd, with Play processing an average of 700 orders per minute and enjoying …

Following a period of ongoing disruption to Xbox Live that saw many festive gamers miss out on a week of sitting in their pants shooting American teenagers online, rumours claim that Microsoft is planning a peace offering to those who pay a subscription to access the service. Problems with the …

With a booming internet market that currently includes approximately 42 million users, the hunger for online gaming is set to rapidly grow in India this year, according to BusinessWeek . Currently only five per cent of India’s web users are active gamers, according to information from ICube, but an increasing …