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It’s official: supermarkets are the fastest growing games retailers in the UK.According to TNS data published by ERA this week, supermarkets took up 17.7 per cent of revenue earned through video game software sales in 2009 – a whopping 328m. That figure was just 210m, 10.1 per cent of the …

Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, where you’ll find the definitive guide to some of the biggest titles hitting shelves in the near future. This week, we take a look at Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, the hotly-anticipated return of the ruthless spy Sam Fisher. With …

Electronic Arts has stormed the PC charts this week, taking the top two positions with its latest releases. Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight debuted at No.1, with fellow new release Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening following in second place. The publisher also held onto four other positions in the …

Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Preview section, where you’ll find the definitive guide to the most hotly anticipated titles heading to retail. This week, we take a look at Square Enix’s Just Cause 2, the open-world action game that lets players parachute, grapple, base-jump, drive, shoot and explode …

D3P’s Ben 10: Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks has proved there’s still plenty of life left in Sony’s handheld by debuting at the top of the PSP charts. The game is the first new entry to grab the No.1 spot of the PSP Top 10 in its debut week since EA’s …

The mounting pressure on retail has been turned up another notch with news that THQ is planning up to six download-only titles within the next 12 months, some of which will be based on its highest-profile IPs. The publisher’s VP of core games Danny Bilson told Joystiq that THQ’s plans …

The value of the video games market in the US fell 15 per cent year-on-year in February to $1.28bn – a number that has surprised even NPD itself. The year to date market value stands at $2.42bn, a 14 per cent decline compared to 2009. The industry realised another month …

Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, where you’ll find the definitive guide to some of the biggest titles heading to retail in the coming weeks. This week, we take a look at Nintendo’s Pokmon HeartGold and SoulSilver – the DS remakes of two of the most popular …

Microsoft has announced it will release a new Xbox 360 Elite SKU this spring, which will include two free blockbuster first-party titles. The Elite Spring bundle will cost 199 and contains a copy of Halo 3: ODST and Forza Motorsport 3 at no extra cost. The bundle was previously rumoured …

Publishers proved there is still life in the hardcore PC gaming market this week as no less than four new releases storm the format’s Top 10. Electronic Arts’ Battlefield: Bad Company 2 took the No.1 spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track PC chart, as it did in the Xbox 360, …