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Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 has delivered as expected and entered the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats top 40 at number one in its debut week. The game becomes the fastest selling title in the Resident Evil franchise and becomes Capcom’s biggest ever week one release in the UK. In total, Resident …

Leading platform holder Nintendo has told MCV that it is not planning to phase out solus DS Lite packs from retail, though it has said that it is upping the supply of DS Lite hardware bundles. Sources this morning claimed that solus packs were to vanish from UK retail in …

Wii platform holder Nintendo has told MCV that it is powerless to up the street price of the Nintendo Wii – adding to the concerns of many of the nation’s indies. MCV today exclusively revealed that Nintendo is to up the trade price of the Nintendo Wii by around 19, …

Nintendo has confirmed to MCV that it is to increase the trade price of its Wii console for UK retailers, a move that could lead to the console’s price rising on the UK High Street. However, retail will decide whether the machine’s current 179.99 price point sticks, or whether consumers …

Around 1,000 jobs are set to be created by the arrival of Best Buy on UK shores, despite the launch of the joint venture between Carphone Warehouse and the US retail giant being delayed till 2010. MCV’s sister site PC Retail has the full story right here.

The unexpected upturn in retail fortunes seen in January has not been carried over to February, with the British Retail Consortium reporting a 1.8 per cent like-for-like drop on the High Street compared to the same month in 2008. Retail Week reports that total sales did grow, at least, increasing …

The Sunday Times has named Microsoft as one of the UK’s best 100 companies to work for – and the Xbox 360 platform holder is the only tech firm to be named in the list. Microsoft ranked 21st in the overall list. The newspaper said that 88 per cent of …

RETAIL BIZ: Killzone 2’s reign at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 has been cut short after just one week with the news that Sega’s PC RTS Empire: Total War has entered the listings at number one. Sony’s PS3 exclusive FPS slips to second this week, …

Gamespot reckons it is the UK’s biggest games site – and has ABCe figures to back up the claim. An ABC Electronic audit from December 2008 has shown a significant increase in monthly unique users, the site’s parent CBS Interactive has revealed to MCV. GameSpot’s readership has risen from 3.5 …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has cut the price of Gold membership to its Xbox Live service in both Europe and North America in what it is describing as a limited time” deal The North American price has dropped from $49.99 to $39.99 whilst the UK price has fallen 5 …