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GAME has this morning finally, for the first time, started to publicly discuss the value of its pre-owned offer as part of its end-of-year results. Lisa Morgan, GAME CEO, today revealed that pre-owned games represent 18 per cent of turnover for the financial year – during which the firm reported …

GAME Group has posted encouraging gains in both turnover and profit during its preliminary results for the year ended 31 January 2009. Group turnover reached 1.97bn for the period, an impressive 32 per cent gain on the 1.49bn achieved in the same period last year. At the same time the …

Chip maker AMD saw losses widen in the first calendar quarter as the PC market went through a painful sales drought. A slump in demand for microprocessors saw quarterly sales sink by 21 per cent to reach $1.18bn, though this was still better than the previously projected result of $978 …

The recently-announced Pub Fund – a scheme where Sony matches development budgets of digital games in return for PlayStation exclusivity – should be a serious consideration for any independent developer. That was the sentiment offered by James Brooksby, Studio Head of Doublesix; the first developer to release a game – …

Eidos is no longer a British publisher – after Japanese giant Square Enix completed its takeover of the Tomb Raider label this afternoon. The Board of Eidos announced today that acquisition had been sanctioned in a Court Hearing. The firm’s shares will be suspended on the London Stock Exchange at …

TOTAL SOFTWARE BY COMPANY (UNITS) 1 Nintendo 13.92 Electronic Arts 12.63 Ubisoft 9.94 Activision Blizzard 8.55 Sega 6.16 Microsoft 5.37 THQ 4.78 Sony 4.69 Take 2 4.110 Capcom 3.3 Wii Fit, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii continue to sell by the bucketload, along with Professor Layton and Dr. Kawashima’s …

Warner Bros has confirmed that it will release LEGO Rock Band on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and DS this year. The game will come in two versions, with the home console iteration developed by TT Games and Harmonix. The DS SKU was created by the duo in tandem with Backbone …

We have all heard the tale by now. In its first month, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sold a mere 90,000 units. That’s almost 2 percent of sales snagged by Grand Theft Auto IV its first week in stores. While analysts projected the title would sell as many as …

Game interest group Tiga has called on the government to introduce a set of schemes in the forthcoming budget that could aid the game development sector. Speaking to MCV, Tiga CEO Richard Wilson lists several measures that he feels are needed to bolster the UK’s position as a world-leader in …

Warner Bros Interactive has snapped up erstwhile Bastion exec Mark Ward as UK PR manager. Ward left Bastion after 13 years earlier this month. Head of games at WBIE UK Spencer Crossley said: We are delighted to have Mark on board. He brings an unrivalled wealth of PR experience to …