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Sega has announced Napoleon: Total War for February 2010. The PC real time strategy game is the sequel to this year’s Empire: Total War, which topped the ChartTrack Top 40 back in February, and achieved critical acclaim. The game is once again being developed by The Creative Assembley. In Napoleon: …

Rising Star will release its unique Wii horror game, Ju-On: The Grudge, on Friday October 23rd.The company is billing the game as a ‘fright-sim’, in which gamers themselves control the thrills in the hopes of terrifying the other players. We see Ju-On as a title that can be enjoyed by …

Some of the UK’s largest retailers face a potentially damaging Government crackdown on the sale of VAT-free entertainment goods shipped through the Channel Islands. Online divisions of HMV, Tesco, WH Smith, Asda, Argos, Amazon, Play.com and Woolworths.co.uk currently dodge millions of pounds of tax on CDs, DVDs and games that …

With whispers of imminent console price cuts rife, a US analyst has predicted these will be insufficient to drive hardware sales. Doug Creutz, an analyst at Cowan and Company, attributed this to economic pressures, believing consumers will still be reluctant to purchase a new console if the format holders lower …

Asda’s market share has risen over the last three months, thanks to price cuts attracting more customers. Data from TNS Till Roll shows that the supermarket’s market share rose from 16.7 per cent to 17 per cent in the 12 weeks ending July 12th, according to The Retail Bulletin. Like-for-like …

The North American video games hardware market continued its value freefall in July, but Microsoft’s Xbox 360 managed to mirror its ongoing success in the UK to post year-on-year sales increases. The overall hardware market declined by 37 per cent year-on-year according to NPD’s latest numbers, but Xbox 360 saw …

Firebrand Games has announced it is currently developing a Wii version of long-running racing series TrackMania. The developer behind the successful DS editions of TrackMania and Race Driver GRID will be showing the game at Gamescom next week in the hopes of attracting a publisher, according to Eurogamer. Studio boss …

GoldenEye designer and Free Radical founder David Doak has returned to games development via a new studio making Facebook games, Develop understands. The new firm has emerged following the late 2008 collapse of TimeSplitters dev Free Radical. Develop understands that two of the four original founders of Free Radical, David …

Namco Bandai has announced that Tekken 6 will hit UK shelves on Friday October 30th. The publisher has also priced its upcoming Arcade Stick and Collector’s edition packs. The Arcade Stick set, which includes a 100-page art book, copy of the game and a specially-designed wireless Hori fighting stick, will …

Publisher D3p has announced that Shaun the Sheep: Off His Head is set to arrive on DS this autumn. The game is the follow-up to last year’s original, and once again features all the characters from the popular Aardman Animation, including Shaun, Timmy, Shirley, Bitzer, as they attempt to rescue …