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It just can’t stop breaking records! Publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold-through a staggering $550m in its first five days on sale. The company believes that this is the best five-day launch in the history of entertainment – including video games, cinema and …

Nintendo is to bankroll its own TV show on UK channel Five – as games’ growing fiscal dominance of other media hits a new milestone. The platform holder has struck an Advertiser-Funded Programming (AFP) deal with the channel for Britain’s Best Brain. MCV understands the partnership, which Nintendo will use …

A new visual tweak on an already heavy speculated Konami teaser site has given the biggest hint yet that Metal Gear Solid 5 will be revealed early on Friday morning. The site, which is tentatively entitled ‘Next’, has been updated with the number five now appearing briefly every few seconds. …

EA has stated that 31 of its titles sold more than a million copies in the last 12 months – an improvement on the 27 1m+ sellers the firm published in 2007. Furthermore, three titles sold over 5m copies each – FIFA 09, Need for Speed Undercover and Madden NFL …

Digital marketing site ClickZ has made a bold claim about the future of gaming by claiming that the games console is heading to extinction thanks to the rise of casual gaming. The site reads: We are watching the icon of gaming, the console, quickly and ungraciously bow to the internet. …

Despite its belief that the next few years will bring massive profit to those who’ve invested in Sony’s high-def disc format Blu-Ray, Korean electronics firm Samsung has stated that it thinks Blu-Ray will be dead by 2013. Speaking to Pocket-Lint, Samsung UK’s director of consumer electronics Andy Griffiths stated: I …