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MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view online and download now. Click here to access the RetailBiz Previews section for a definitive look at some of the key titles approaching release in the near future. This week, we jump in the driving seat with Sega’s Sonic & …

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction has been given a concrete UK release date of April 16th. Ubisoft previously delayed the game from its original February 26th release date to a vague ‘April’ release in order to push the game back to the publisher’s next financial year. Conviction will arrive three …

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view online and download now. Sony’s ambitious online first-person shooter MAG has debuted at No.1 in the PlayStation 3 charts. Given its multiplayer only focus, the game’s success is a testament to how prolific online functionality has become in games. MAG …

Retail giants Wal-Mart and Best Buy have pulled out of a plan to extend their reach in the games market via automatic store-based kiosks. In May last year Wal-Mart teamed up with E-Play to place kiosks in 80 of its 3,600 U.S. stores, while Best Buy also carried the experiment …

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view online and download now. Our essential six-page supplement offers an in-depth look at this week’s official Gfk-ChartTrack multiformat Top 40 – topped this week by EA’s Mass Effect 2 – as well as all of the official UK single and …

Namco Bandai has announced Dead To Rights: Retribution will be released in the UK on April 16th. The game was announced for Xbox 360 and PS3 last February and represents a complete reinvention of the franchise, boasting a new narrative and hybrid combat system. Retribution will tell the story of …

New statistics from the CBI’s Distributive Trades Survey show that sales on the High Street in early January declined eight per cent year-on-year, ending hopes that retailers were on track to enjoy three straight monthly increases. The vicious cold snap in the early part of the month was mainly to …

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is now available to view online and download now. Last night, Apple finally unveiled the much rumoured iPad and pledged that gaming will be a key element in its proposition, but will the device benefit retailers? MCV is inviting retailers to comment on this …

THQ’s upcoming FPS Metro 2033 will be released on in the UK on March 19th. The Xbox 360 and PC game pulls players into a post-apocalyptic dystopia where the survivors of a nuclear holocaust are forced to live and travel in the disused tunnels of the Metro system. Metro 2033 …

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is now available to view online and download now. For the definitive guide to some of the hottest games hitting the High Street, click here to access the RetailBiz Previews section. This week, we take a look at Disney’s The Princess And The Frog, …