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Nintendo’s 3DS will not be released in any territory this side of Christmas. Instead, the format holder has confirmed at a conference in Japan today that the device will roll out globally in late Q1 2011 – and with a price close to 200, as MCV and our retail sources …

GAME Group today confirmed that it plans to shave down its store count even further over the next three years. Currently, the firm runs 635 stores across its two brands, GAME and Gamestation – after earlier this year closing 15 stores and 27 concessions. But the firm expects to slim …

GAME has reported an expected year-on-year drop in sales and revenue in its half-year financials. For the 26 weeks ending July 31st, revenue was down 9.6 per cent to 624.6m compared to 690.8m the year previously, with like for like sales down 10 per cent. That’s in line with the …

Of course we’ve been here before. Red Dead Redemption, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction. Brief moments of success in 2010 followed by weeks of decline. But this time it’s different, right? Yes, is the answer. For a start games are actually coming out that can continue the momentum …

Startup iSwifter has emerged from stealth mode with a service that lets iPad users play Flash games from some of the world’s biggest games portals. The service describes itself as a ‘cloud-based Flash streaming service’, and while it works on iPad initially, iSwifter plans to roll it out to iPhone …

Codemasters’ racer Grid will debit as a coin-op arcade game this autumn. Via a deal with Sega Amusements, the UK publisher has developed a two-man cabinet of the game. The content has been developed at Codemasters Studios. Grid won a BAFTA for best sports game in 2009. Codemasters says this …

Most companies are already active in what they would call the digital space (a catch-all jargon for routes to market outside of the traditional channel). But are they doing it right and will they be doing it tomorrow? That’s what The London Games Conference aims to find out. Every year, …

One of the fastest growing kids’ sites in the world is plotting a move into video games publishing and development. Moshi Monsters, the virtual pet online hub run by Mind Candy, is growing its brands across a mix of media – with expansion onto DS and 3DS the culmination of …

Cognitive scientists from the University of Rochester have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. In an upcoming study in the journal Current Biology, researchers Daphne Bavelier, Alexandre Pouget, and C. Shawn Green report that video games could provide a potent training regimen …

ELSPA made the transition into UKIE last night – and along with a new name, logo and agenda, the organisation has a new website. Located at Ukie.info, the site is described by director general Michael Rawlinson as a key element to the new UKIE offer – and a step beyond …