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The games industry is often guilty of putting a good spin on bad news. Title pushed to next year? Well, it’s just getting more development time to make it better. Consoles not selling as quickly as planned? It’s okay, we’ve got a long-term strategy that doesn’t rely on short-term sales spikes. Yet news that so many bankable games have been pushed away from the busy Christmas season really isn’t such a bad thing.

MCV outlines what titles remain in the fight for Christmas retail supremacy

Entertainment Division still in the black despite revenue falls; Overall Microsoft performance poor

Eight years of continued growth as 2008 like-for-like sales climb 12.3 per cent

Lagging performance of PC title Age of Conan leads to departure of Olav Sandnes

Rising dollar fails to prevent price war in fourth quarter and leads to a boost demand

Activision expects new COD to be 'most anticipated title of 2009'

Publisher predicts PS3 and 360 will each shift eight million units

Income drops $58m to a loss of $45m, though revenue climbs 13 per cent to $313m

Q4 net income drop of 69 per cent sends shiver down the spine of Finnish mobile giant

31 per cent deterioration in what’s been called an “extremely difficult holiday season”

Disappointing sales will lead to lower net revenue and earnings than had been previously forecast, publisher warns

GFK-ChartTrack predicts most lucrative Christmas in history for territory

Screen Digest claims that publishing duo account for 75 per cent of all Q3 releases on next-gen consoles

David Zucker spells out new gameplan to push firm forward