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Activision’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 retained the top spot on UK all formats chart during the week ended November 21, despite an 86 per cent drop in sales compared to its first seven days.
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed II debuted in second place, having ...
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With the sumptuous looking Critter Crunch having just hit the European PSN Store, Nathan Vella , president of developer Capybara Games, spoke at Montreal Game Summit about the company managed to create its Miyazaki-quality artwork on the shoestring budget of an independent development studio. ...
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Apologies for the late appearance of last week's Games Index, due to Edge Online's site outage on Friday. Please note that the chart games are taken from last Monday 's UK top ten selling games. Every week, the Edge Games Index, produced in association with Brandwatch, rates games according ...
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US media watchdog the National Institute on Media and the Family (NIMF) is to close on December 31 due to a lack of funding.
NIMF was founded in 1996 “to educate and inform the public, and to encourage practices and policies that promote positive change in the production and use of ...
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Nintendo launched the DSi LL this weekend in Japan, generating queues for the product at a number of stores.
Around 100 consumers were waiting in line at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara when the store opened on Saturday, while the queue was over 60 strong at Bic Camera in Tokyo's Ikebukuro, ...
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Social gaming company Zynga and social network Facebook have been named in a class action lawsuit over the deployment of offer-based advertising.
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Discussing how his role at Nintendo has evolved over the years, Shigeru Miyamoto has told us that his style of making games has remained fairly consistent, but that he now commands a much greater influence on the development of hardware than in the past.
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To some, poor sales are almost a guarantee of probity – a coded message that invites the initiated to come inside and get devotional. Look at Beyond Good and Evil , say, or Jet Set Radio Future : they didn’t hit the sales jackpot, but they struck a deep chord with certain players ...
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Nintendo has introduced paid video downloads for the Wii in Japan.
A range of movies, anime and other paid content from providers including Walt Disney and Warner Entertainment hit the company’s Wii no Ma Channel this weekend under a new Theater no Ma section, reports Andriasang .
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Leading mobile publisher Gameloft has said that it is one of a number of companies scaling back investment in games and applications for Google's Android platform.
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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward has said that the PC version of its record breaking title is outpacing sales of the original Modern Warfare . read more
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Denise Kaigler, Nintendo of America’s vice president of corporate affairs, has left her role with the company for family reasons.
The executive, who joined NoA in February of 2008, explained her decision to quit in a post on IGN’s Nintendo Minute, a weekly feature where the ...
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China’s Ministry of Culture (MoC) has ordered online game operators to enhance socialist values in their titles and hire specialised staff to monitor content.
The regulator is keen to stamp out obscene and violent content and limit the likes of virtual marriages and ...
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Sins Of A Solar Empire publisher Stardock has estimated that Valve's Steam holds a 70 per cent share of the digital distribution market. The company believes that its Impuse service is the second largest player in the marketplace, it said in its annual customer report ( pdf ), which was ...
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At this year's Montreal International Game Summit the idea of whether games should only be seen as fun was challenged in more than one session. Commentators such as industry veteran Brenda Braithwaite (designer of the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series, among others) and Edge columnist Randy ...
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Sony platforms dominated hardware sales in Japan during the week ended November 15.
PSP-3000 sales rose by 5,000 units week-on-week to head the rankings, although sales of the company’s latest handheld, PSPgo, more than halved to an underwhelming 6,427 units.
Despite a 10,000 units ...
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Retailer GameStop has reportedly acquired a majority stake in Jolt Online Gaming, an Ireland-based publisher of free-to-play browser titles.
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Boutique law firm Abington IP says it could launch a class action lawsuit against Microsoft over the platform holder’s recent wave of Xbox Live bans.
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Sony is to launch an online content distribution service for its network-connected devices in 2010.
Executive VP and PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai told reporters that the service will offer movies, music, books and other content to the company’s TVs, Blu-ray players, ebooks and other ...
