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HMV has sold its Japanese business arm – made up of 62 stores and its website hmv.co.jp – for 70 million. The retailer says that the deal with DSM Investment Catorce will allow it to concentrate on countries in which it was a market leader. Chief executive Simon Fox added …

Nintendo must be toasting yet another storming week in this week’s UK all formats, all prices chart as the platform holder once again dominates the top ten, publishing six out of the top ten best selling titles this week. Only Activision and EA manage to break the monopoly, while the …

When asked whether he feels vindicated by the recent success of Wii, Miyamoto told Dean Takahashi of Mercury News : I think it is not necessarily vindication but I do get the distinct feeling that because of the Wii, people all over the world are finally taking notice of video …

Japanese games firm Sega Sammy Holdings has reported a 2.4 billion Yen ($42.8 million) loss for the three-month period ended June 30th. In the same period a year before, the parent of Sega Europe posted an operating income of 2.8 billion Yen. Net sales were up 11 per cent year-on-year, …

Rare’s Viva Pinata is to be released for the Nintendo DS, according to reports emerging from this past weekend’s Comic-Con. Microsoft-owned Rare will be using the original concept for the game – not the upcoming party version made by Australia’s Kaos – for the Nintendo machine. It’s not the first …

LucasArts has revealed details of a new Lego game based on the Indiana Jones franchise. Joining the ranks of Lego Star Wars I and II and the recently announced Lego Batman, the title will be developed by Travellers Tales. Next-gen.biz reports that the game will be based on the lasso-sporting …

Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar is developing a new title that will be exclusive to PS3. SCEA’s Michael Shorrock revealed the news on the official US PlayStation blog on Friday. He wrote that Sony had ‘agreed to the PlayStation-exclusive rights of the next great franchise from the Rockstar studios’. ‘Everyone …

Given what we saw at E3, is third–party support becoming the key battleground for next-gen formats? Development and support for a format is very important yes, and the story is very different these days to how it was with older formats. In the past you could pay a million dollars …

Sony’s games division has reported operating losses of 120 million (29.2 billion Yen) for its first quarter of 2007 after a difficult period for the console, reports The Times – more than double the loss for the same period in 2006. Sony said that it shipped 710,000 PS3 game consoles …

Vivendi has issued its financial report for the first half of the year – and the sales growth of the company’s games division is outstripping that of the overall company. In total, Vivendi enjoyed revenue growth of little more than 6 per cent for the six month period up to …