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The UK software market fell once again, despite the release of Guitar Hero 5 and The Beatles: Rock Band. According to MCV calculations based on this week’s Gfk-ChartTrack/ELSPA weekly report, the UK market dipped six per cent to 17.6m for the week ending September 11th. Unit sales fell even further, …

A limited number of Trade Tickets for this year’s Games Media Awards are now on sale. The GMAs take place at Camden Jongleurs on the evening of Thursday, October 15th. It’s the single biggest gathering of games media of the year. You may or may not consider this to be …

American sales tracker NPD has told MCV that it wants to introduce the globe’s first digital download chart. The move would help quash ‘misinformation’ about the games market, according to the data monitor’s director of corporate marketing David Riley. Leading publishers and trade body ELSPA last month told MCV that …

With increasing development costs putting upwards pressure on new releases to maximise their sales potential, Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has explained that modern releases can now make ten time the revenue that they used to. In the last cycle of videogames you spent $50 on a game, played it …

Publishers are being urged to take a chance on a Roland Rat game, after a US IP agency snapped up the rights to the classic 1980s television character. The Sharpe Company announced it had acquired the licence for the fluffy presenter last month, with a review to relaunching him as …

Following the release of a promo video yesterday that hinted at a gaming-orientated future for Microsoft’s new portable multimedia player the Zune HD, the Xbox platform holder has finally broken its silence and spoken openly about its gaming aspirations for the device. However, Microsoft is not yet planning on opening …

Namco Bandai Partners and Ubisoft have become the latest big name publishers to get behind this year’s Games Media Awards. Ubisoft has stepped up to sponsor the Best Games Coverage in a Mainstream Magazine category – won last year by Simon Munk for FHM. Ubisoft UK marketing director Murray Pannell …

Electronics retail chain Comet has hired Azeem Sadiq as its category buyer for gaming. Although new to the games industry, Sadiq has eight years of retail experience, having held various buying roles for House of Fraser, MFI and online retailer CSN. He replaces Debbie O’Neill, who moved from the games …

Having embarked on a low-profile pre-owned video games trial in a couple” of its North American outlets earlier this year, Toys R Us is to press ahead with plans to introduce pre-owned games trading at all of its North American stores. Variety reports that Toys R Us claims to accept …

Ever since the Zune was first announced the industry has patiently awaited Microsoft’s move to position the device as a games machine – and that could be about to arrive at last if a new promo video is anything to go by. Gizmodo spotted an inclusion in the machine’s latest …