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If the trade ever needed proof that Wii owners are still willing to put their hands in their pockets and buy games, 505 Gameshas it. Zumba Fitness is June’s No.1 and has now established itself as the latest Wii sales sensation, propelling 505 into the publishing elite for the month. …

After creating quite a stir upon its unveiling last week, the Limited Edition Star Wars Xbox 360 console has been given a 349.99 RRP in the UK. The highest price Xbox 360 hardware available on the High Street right now is the 299.99 250GB Kinect bundle, though this can typically …

IN PICTURES:If ever a console had guaranteed seller” written all over it, it’s this. Microsoft has lifted the lid on a quite spectacular Star Wars themed Xbox 360 console that will be launched alongside the much-hyped Star Was Kinect game later this year. The console itself is styled on charismatic …

The Nintendo 3DS will get its first game based on the mammoth Pokmon franchise this October, but it’s not a traditional RPG. Pokmon Rumble Blast is a 3D action game that follows the formula of 2009 WiiWare title Pokmon Rumble. Players can battle waves of toy Pokmon alone or with …

Publisher Square Enix has announced that console RPG sequel Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be released in North America in January 2012. It has already been pencilled in for a December 2011 release in Japan on Ps3 and Xbox 360. There’s no concrete European release date as of yet, but that’s …

The space-saving Nyko Kinect Zoom Lens accessory will arrive in the UK around August 30th, a retailer has told MCV. A spokesperson for UK-based online store GamingZap said the Lens will be in stock one week after the US launch on August 23rd. The retailer has already seen a high …

Ubisoft has finally nailed down a concrete release date for the PS3 version of Child of Eden. The game, which hit Xbox 360 in June, will arrive complete with PlayStation Move compatibility in the UK on September 23rd. There’s also a concrete release date for the 3DS version of Michael …

Another month, another bleak story about the state of the UK games retail market. This time, 78.4m was spent on boxedgames last month. That’s a six per cent drop on the 83.5m generated during June 2010.In terms of the amount of video games sold, the number isn’t quite so bad. …

Our three leading stories in this week’s edition of MCV magazine paint a pretty clear picture of the flux gaming currently finds itself.The traditional retail market continues to shrink. It’s been long predicted, but that makes it no less pleasant to live through. Nothing is filling the 50m year-on-year shortfall. …

The closure consultancy period for THQ’s UK development team has come to an end, and the publisher has indeed decided to shut the studio down, Develop has been told. Close to 36 will be made redundant effective immediately, with a transition team of 10 left to see the studio’s current …