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The cost to the UK video games market should HMV fail to find a buyer could be as little as four per cent. That’s thanks to HMV’s relatively small share of the UK games market. Nonetheless, its demise would theoretically leave the High Street with just a 16 per cent …

Xbox Live has added several new offerings to its budding entertainment app section. Major Nelson announces that the handful of new apps have launched on Microsoft’s console service, and nearly all of them are region specific. Crunchroll, which offers streaming Anime and Asian drama titles, is now available in all …

Andrew House felt he was heading into the lion’s den ahead of his first major press conference since becoming CEO of PlayStation. SCEA president Jack Tretton had lapped up the whopping and adulation as he introduced violent action games to the bloodthirsty crowd. House’s job was to show the same …

World of Warcraft developer-publisher Blizzard will not have a floor presence at this year’s E3, a company rep has told MCV. This makes it’s the fifth consecutive year the company has bypassed the annual games trade show in Los Angeles. Additionally, Blizzard will not be holding one of its own …

Microsoft has cancelled Inside Xbox in the UK and Europe after it axed the service in the US last week. Inside Xbox’s UK team was responsible for video entertainment shows including SentUAMessage and more recently The Nexus. These were displayed on the Xbox Live dashboard and were also available on …

UK media group Future Publishing has made a number of changes to the senior management team for its Entertainment brands. The reshuffle is part of Future’s ongoing plans to grow these magazines and websites, as well as their digital counterparts such as videos, on-console shows and Newsstand editions. Don Ditri …

Microsoft is letting Xbox 360 owners access entertainment apps such as Netflix for free from April 20th until April 23rd. No Xbox Live Gold membership will be required during this time either – anyone with a 360 will be able to access all of the online service’s features. As part …

US Xbox 360 owners are now spending more time using Xbox 360’s multimedia functions than they are gaming. It’s the realisation of a long-term goal for Microsoft, which has spent huge amounts of time and money to try and position its device not just as a games console but also …

Almost a third of all Diablo players are female, a new report shows. With 31 per cent of users female, this is close to the volume seen for the average game. The Blizzard RPG series also has more players in the 20-24 (both genders), 25-29 (males) and 30-34 (females) age …

Negotiations for the movie adaptation of BioShock have seen very little forward movement since its reveal back in 2008. Now the film appears to have taken another step back with the loss of its second director in four years. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who signed on to direct after Gore Verbinski …