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A routine Bank Holiday sale or an effort to encourage struggling hardware sales – call it what you want, but PSPgo owners old and new will be greeted with some significant discounts the next time they log into the PSN Store. Several high-profile titles have seen their prices slashed on …

Conspicuous by its absence in EA’s forward planning for the financial year ahead was any mention of the once golden franchise that is Rock Band, leading to speculation that the publisher could be looking to drop its distribution agreement for the game. Furthermore, with the end of its current deal …

Sony has described 2009 as a turning point” for PS3 and ELSPA said the console was last year’s star” performer, but new analysis from Gamasutra paints a far less rosy picture for the PlayStation platform holder. More specifically, the site claims that Sony suffered a $1.3bn year-on-year drop in revenue …

The North American video game market was worth $20.2bn in 2009 – an eight per cent decline compared to 2008’s $21.4bn. However, the figures were eased by a record-breaking December performance that was four per cent up on the same month a year before. The only sector to see an …

While rival Activision seems keen to up the price that gamer’s fork out on their favourite hobby, EA has claimed that consumers can expect to see games come down in price some time in the future. I think that we’re going to start to see – maybe not in the …

Ahead of the publication of firm numbers for its current financial year, publisher Konami has issued a stark word of caution to investors, warning them that the numbers are likely to bring bad news. Konami expects that profits for the current financial year will be 82 per cent down on …

One of the most exciting developers in the market – and more importantly one of the leading lights on Sony’s PS3 arm of PSN – has vowed to never release another of its titles on PSP following the piracy problems suffered by its first title on the handheld. The full …

Falling sales of the Wii and the decreasing value of the yen could force Nintendo to lower its profit forecasts for the first time in six years – that’s the warning from US news agency Bloomberg. The predictions are that the platform holder’s net income is set to fall by …

Though Nintendo remains stoically quiet on the subject, the industry is preparing for the anticipated announcement of a Wii price cut very shortly – but question marks remains concerning the platform holder’s UK intentions. Further evidence of a North American price cut emerged overnight with tech blog Engadget claiming to …

In a surprise move, Microsoft has effectively cut another $50 off the price of its high-end Xbox 360 Elite – though the deal is only set to run for two weeks. Any consumers who buy Microsoft’s 120GB machine by October 5th will be able to send off for a $50 …