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The UK video games market’s weekly sales shot up 54 per cent to 27.8m last week – its highest weekly figure since Easter. Unit sales also rose 34 per cent to 1,082,362. The results were driven by this week’s new no.1 and no.2, Halo 3: ODST and Nintendo’s Professor Layton …
Read More »UK has most online and console gamers in Europe
Recent research shows that Great Britain has more online and console gamers than any other territory in Europe. The 2009 UK National Gamers Survey, carried out by TNS and Gamesindustry.com reports that 73 per cent of participants enjoy playing games on a regular basis. Young men between the ages of …
Read More »13 games for PSP Minis launch
Sony’s PSPgo has arrived at UK retail, and with it so too arrives the platform holder’s answer to the Apple App Store – PSP Minis. Those who buy the console today will have a total of 13 games to choose from in Europe, with a seven-strong selection fronting the North …
Read More »Crytek UK ‘keen to get involved in education’
Former Free Radical studio also at work on original IP
Read More »PSPgo hits UK retail
It may not have enjoyed the same level fanfare that can often usher in a new hardware release, but today’s arrival of the PSPgo is an important landmark for both Sony’s machine and the wider games industry. The PSP has for a long-time been hampered by the generalised belief that …
Read More »Crytek Across the World
Develop's guide to the six international Crytek studios
Read More »Wii Fit Plus gets UK date
It might not have the headline generating potential of the likes of Modern Warfare 2 or FIFA 10, but there are few titles retailers will be as keen to get onto shelves as Wii Fit Plus – and they won’t have to wait long, either. Eurogamer reports that the game …
Read More »Now Vodafone grabs iPhone rights
Just one day after Orange also nabbed the UK rights to sell the iPhone 3G and 3GS from some time later this year, fellow UK telecoms network Vodafone has announced that it has also won the right to sell Apple’s handset. For the full story, head over to Mobile Entertainment.
Read More »Realtime Worlds threatens to leave UK over taxes
RTW may move to Ireland - Scotland replies by calling for independence from UK game tax system
Read More »UK CHARTS: Halo 3 ODST is no.1
In news that is likely to shock no one, Microsoft’s feverously anticipated Halo 3 ODST has stormed the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Charts and shot straight to the top spot. It does so exactly two years after its predecessor, Halo 3, did much the same. 64 per cent of ODST’s …
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