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After launching in the US yesterday, Nintendo has announced that eight WiiWare titles will become available to European consumers when the online service arrives in the territory next week. The service launched this week in the US with six games – and back in Japan in March with nine. It …

PlayStation 3 becomes first console to use video format, which promises high quality compression

Thanks to some technological tinkering akin to witchcraft, we’ve just posted a wee snippet of last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Pub Quiz – complete with winners GAME’s celebrations. There’s also a plug in there for the next event, which is set for September 10th at the industry’s favourite Pub Quiz hang …

The Daily Mail has attacked one of the more traditionally innocent cornerstones of our industry – the humble Nintendo DS. After years of being praised across the national media for its family-friendly qualities, the newspaper’s Rosie Millard calls the console a toxic drug” in her first-person piece about her experience …

The biggest All Formats release ever, Grand Theft Auto IV , has hit the top spot in the UK software chart – outselling last week’s No.1 Wii Fit by nine-to-one. According to ELSPA/ChartTrack statistics, the Rockstar title almost broke the one million unit barrier in the week (Sunday, April 28th …

More copes of Rockstar’s GTA IV for were sold on Xbox 360 than PS3 in the game’s first week on UK shelves – but both companies enjoyed similar success when it came to the ‘system selling’ influence of the title. That’s according to official ChartTrack figures obtained by MCV, which …

Microsoft aiming for first community tech preview in coming weeks

Financial doom and gloom may be building elsewhere, but the games industry is bucking all the trends as Wii Fit and GTA IV look set to push retail sales up to the 100m mark this week. In the past week, ChartTrack confirmed that Wii Fit has already racked up 16m …

American news network CNN has broadcast an astounding attack on Rockstar’s GTA IV – in which presenter Glenn Beck says the game is training our kids to be killers” and teaches young men to treat women like whores”. In the diatribe, which carries the headline ‘Grand Theft Morality’, Beck likens …

Microsoft’s product manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg has claimed that US retailers have sold double the number of units of GTA IV on 360 than they have on PS3. In an in-depth interview with Next-Gen, Greenberg said: "What we’ve heard anecdotally from our retail partners is …