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Rockstar is still celebrating its successful appeal to get Manhunt 2 classified – but the British Board of Film Classification has warned that it may go to the most powerful judiciary in the country to ensure the game never hits High Street shelves. The Video Appeals Committee upheld Rockstar’s plea …

The video game market, including software and hardware, saw sales reach $2.63 billion last month in the US – an increase of 52 per cent compared to the same period the year before. And compared to this stage in 2006, year-to-date sales have climbed a massive 50 per cent to …

The good news keeps coming for Sony, with the latest figures from NPD showing that sales of the PS3 grew faster than any of its console rivals in North America in November. The machine sold 466,000 units in the region in November, a 285 per cent increase on the month …

After debuting in second place in last week’s Japanese software charts, Nintendo’s Wii fit has finally claimed the top spot in Media Create’s listings, with the former number one Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box dropping to fifth place. Microsoft will also be pleased to see Mistwalker’s Xbox 360 exclusive RPG …

With the 360, PS3, PS2 and PC versions of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 already enjoying incredible success on the UK High Street, Konami has announced that both the DS and PSP versions of the game will be released some time between January and March next year. The DS versions looks …

DSG International is facing the prospect of being de-listed from the FTSE 100, after a string of profit warnings, sluggish sales and over anticipation of demand by the owner of some of the UK’s biggest retail brands in the UK, including Currys, PC World and Dixons. For the full story …

After a storming year of success, Microsoft took the lion’s share of the praise in the 2007 MCV Retail Survey, with Nintendo also attracting a great deal of commendation from video game stores all across the country. The star-studded release of Halo 3 – which saw high calibre celebrity endorsement …

Forget the BAFTA’s, forget the Golden Joysticks – this is where the wheat gets well and truly separated from the chaff as retail casts its vote on the best performing companies in the video games trade this year. Microsoft took a big chunk of the praise, winning ‘highlight of the …

Publisher MTV Games and developer Harmonix have hit out at the publisher Activision after the Guitar Hero owner blocked moves to release a patch that would enable its guitar peripheral to work with rival product Rock Band. In a statement issued to Next-Gen, an MTV rep stated: Two weeks ago, …

Following the publication of its Guide to Greener Electronics report last month , which blasted Nintendo for being the worst performing company it has ever rated on environmental issues, Greenpeace has launched a new website to highlight the environmental impact of games consoles. Fronted by a video featuring Mario, Master …