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Global internet giant Google has announced a further 200 job losses, with the cuts to be focused on its sales and marketing operations and half coming from its North American operations. Google has already announced 140 job losses so far this year in addition to the 300 jobs lost a …

Valve, the developer of co-operative zombie shooter Left 4 Dead, has revealed that its title has sold over 2.5m units worldwide at retail since launch, Edge reports. The number includes boxed sales of the game on both Xbox 360 and PC. The figure doesn’t include sales of the game through …

The games industry continues to demonstrate its resilience to the tough global economic climate with news that North American based games retailer GameStop enjoyed its eighth straight year of growth in 2008. Full-year results for the fiscal year ending January 31st 2009 saw like-for-like sales climb 12.3 per cent for …

Ahead of the release of the DSi in Europe and America early next month, Nintendo’s rejigged dual screen handheld has now passed the 2m unit sales barrier in its homeland of Japan. The news comes from Japanese games weekly Famitsu, courtesy of VG247. DSi hit the market in the Far …

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Having once again bossed the North American games market in what was another record-breaking month in February, Nintendo has revealed that Wii Play has now sold over 10m units in the territory. Sales of the Wii hit 753,000 in February, an increase of 74 per cent year-on-year. DS sold an …

Whilst we’re still waiting for the exact sales figures of Rockstar’s recently released Grand Theft Auto IV DLC The Lost and the Damned, Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg has said that the content has outperformed much of its boxed opposition. The Lost and the Damned is the most successful …

Halo Wars, the Ensemble Studios RTS released for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 last month, has now sold over one million copies across the globe, the platform holder has confirmed. To date the title has seen 2.6m multiplayer matches played online, totalling up more than 118 years of total playtime. On average, …

Gaming’s position atop of the UK entertainment hierarchy was given a serious boost last week as strong sales of Capcom’s chart-topping Resident Evil 5 saw gaming streak ahead of both music and film. Stats from Verdict research show that last weekend RE5 outsold every item in the UK singles charts …

Having made its name on PS2 and gone on to enjoy success on both Xbox 360 and PS3, Capcom’s Devil May Cry series has now shipped 10m units worldwide. The original title, which arrived in 2001, was an energetic interpretation of the formula made popular by fellow Capcom IP Onimusha …