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The usual US suspects may have managed to bring a touch of razzmatazz to this year’s downsized E3 – but former attendees on this side of the Atlantic have poured scorn on the UK being ‘frozen out’ of the expo. And domestic retailers and publishers have warned that the Leipzig …

Following the recall of Mario Party 8 just a day after it was released in the UK, Nintendo has promised retailers it is working as quickly as it can to get it back on the shelves. The Wii title was withdrawn from the shelves after the word ‘spastic’ was discovered …

GAME is set to significantly ramp up its presence in France, Australia and Spain before the end of the year, in a bid to get closer to being a truly global retailer”, according to company CEO Lisa Morgan. Of the 50 new stores touted in the firm’s recent trading update, 20 …

Its official release date currently stands as September, but Project Gotham Racing 4 developer Bizarre Creations has vowed that it won’t release its racer until it is completely finished – something it admits it cannot say about the first 360 release for the franchise. Speaking to Eurogamer, Bizarre’s business director …

Too Human dev claims Epicâ??s Unreal Engine 3 failed to deliver and harmed other studios

Future Publishing’s consumer games site GamesRadar is celebrating after its first ever ABC Electronic certificate – which confirms that the portal attracted over 3.25 million unique users between May 1st and 31st. The website, which has offices in the UK and USA, generated 42.86 million page impressions during the period. …

The new head of the PlayStation division’s address is to be entitled The Expanding PlayStation World, Business Strategy For New Growth,” according to a report on IGN. Following a muted showing at E3, Kazuo Hirai is expected to kick off Japan’s biggest games show by revealing more online functionality and …

Another UK studio has taken to Wii development, with Rockstar Games’ Leeds team working on a conversion of its San Diego sister studio’s Table Tennis game. The game is due out later this year and adds Wiimote functionality to the title’s table tennis league gameplay, reports developmag.com. "Ever since we …

360 developer aims to subconsciously teach players about music composer Chopin

The roll-out of Tesco’s own-brand software has stepped up a pace this week, with more than 200 new stores set to have product on shelves by the end of this week. The Tesco Software range was launched in October last year and introduced to around 150 of the supermarket giant’s …