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It’s one of the biggest releases of the year so far, and retail is preparing a huge operation to welcome EA’s Battlefield 3 to UK retail. Both GAME and Gamestation will be opening hundreds of stores on midnight on the night of Thursday October 27th. Most will open at around …

Valve’s Portal 2 has this afternoon claimed the most coveted prize at this year’s Golden Joystick Awards. It walked away with the prestigious Ultimate Game of the Year accolade, though there were plenty of others winner crowned too including the likes of Angry Birds Rio, Gran Turismo 5, FIFA 11, …

Nintendo has announced that Just Dance 2 has now sold over 5m copies in the US. It’s only the eighth title to do so and is the first from a third party publisher. Worldwide sales for the game stand at 14m. Here is the complete list of 5m+ sellers: 1. …

Having caused further havoc with EVE Online players overnight, LulzSec has stepped up its anarchic digital crusade by publishing the email and password details of 62,000 internet users. The kicker this time is that the group has not revealed the source of the information. Instead, users are left worrying whether …

Amazon UK and Argos have stayed at last year’s number one and two spots respectively, while Tesco has knocked Play.com off the number three spot, moving it down one place to number four. Experian said that one of the fast moving sectors were department stores and John Lewis was one …

As the excitement builds ahead of the launch of 3DS this Friday, GAME has announced its wide-ranging midnight opening plans. In total 482 GAME and Gamestation stores will open their doors at midnight on the night of Thursday March 24th. GAME’s Oxford Street store will be hosting a special event …

1. Publishers to stop moaning about second-handPublishers have whined and whined about the evil that is pre-owned. They’ve even risked pissing off gamers with second user charges. What has retail done? Dedicated more space to it in-store. Get over it. 2. Tax breaksLook, let’s get this straight: it’s not happening. …

EA will shut down the online servers for 31 of its titles over the next few weeks, it has been confirmed. Affected titles include Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, FIFA 09, The Sims Carnival, Madden 09 and Madden 10 on PSP and FIFA Street 3. Also due for the chop …

No matter what type of games you like, 2010 was a corker with a host of quality titles that maintained the games industry’s strength in the face of challenging economic conditions. Here MCV removes it business hat and ‘gets its consumer on’ by naming the games that we enjoyed most …

With just hours to go until Call of Duty: Black Ops is unleashed upon the world to potentially record-breaking sales, most of the major players in the UK entertainment retail sector have come clean with the deals that they hope will win them a big share of the game’s week …