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We’re now ten weeks into 2013 and so far it’s been a dreary start to the year. Plenty of new releases have topped the charts, but they haven’t performed well enough to stop total sales declining by more than 20 per cent year-on-year. Obviously retailers still have long-tail sellers like …

More than 26 million people watched Sony’s reveal trailer for its next-generation PS4 console last month. The video, which can be viewed below, topped YouTube’s ads leaderboard for February 2013 with five million more views than the next most popular ad, which was from Samsung Mobile USA. The rankings are …

The Xi3 Piston, the Valve-backed PC-like console, will be available by the end of the year. And costs a whopping $1,000. Xi3 Corporation is now accepting pre-orders for the device, listing the price as $999.99, according to Engadget. Consumers who pre-order by Sunday, March 17th will receive a $100 discount. …

In MCV’s weeklyrundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Millea heads up Morrisons’ games division and we look at the best job opportunities. Morrisons signs new games buyerSimon Millea is now managing the video games category at?Morrisons, taking on the position of buyer for PC software, games, consoles …

It’s no good shouting at an empty room. Publishers need to know where their audience is and how to reach them, and as the demographic of gamers broadens, this is becoming much more challenging. Rewind five, ten years and magazines held more sway over the gaming masses. Each edition was …

UK entertainment site Digital Spy has become an online retailer with a new website that sells video games, films, gadgets and more. The venture is the result of a deal between publisher Hearst Magazines and online retail empire The Hut Group, which runs white label outlets for several other companies. …

Administrator Deloitte has confirmed to MCV that there will be further closures at Blockbuser stores UK. MCV contacted the firm after rumours suggested that all of the rental chain’s outlets would be closed by the end of March, but Deloitte stated that this was not the case. Instead, planned stores …

Sony has confirmed that PlayStation 4 will not prevent consumers from playing second-hand games, silencing the rumours once and for all. Countless reports, rumours, and speculation pieces since March last year have suggested that the next generation Sony console will block second-hand games. But Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida …

Canada is one of the world’s biggest video games markets and it continues to grow. 16,000 people already work in the Canadian video games industry, and 77 per cent of local games firms expect to hire new graduates this year, according to Entertainment Software Association Canada. Of course, most of …

Zynga-onwed social game Draw Something has been downloaded more than 100 million times since its release. The mobile phenomenon was released last year and rapidly rose to popularity, quickly passing the 50m downloads mark within a few months. Draw Something saw its active user numbers dip shortly after, but has …