Pokemon Company's crossover of Pokemon and Tecmo Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series leads the Japanese all-formats chart in its debut week.
The DS title sold 172,027 copies, enough to beat two fellow new entries, Sega’s Shining Blade and Namco Bandai’s Madoka Magika Portable, both for PSP.
The PS3 version of Mass Effect 3 is another notable debutant, narrowly charting at number 20 with 8,000 units sold, Andriasang reports.
Zynga has acquired social game developer OMGPOP for a fee reported to be in the region of $180 million (£114m).
Reports of a potential buyout emerged earlier this week, shortly after New York-based OMGPOP’s Draw Something dethroned Zynga’s Words With Friends as the most popular Facebook game with 12.2 million daily active users.
UK trade body UKIE has described the chancellor's announcement of tax relief for the UK videogame industry as "fantastic news."
Organisers have announced the venue and first round of speakers for the annual Edinburgh Interactive festival, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Eidos life president Ian Livingstone is marking an anniversary of his own this year; his first Fighting Fantasy book, The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain, will be 30 years old in August. He'll discuss his new interactive novel, Blood Of The Zombies, and will also chair a skills and education panel.
Hot on the heels of news that the UK government is to introduce tax relief for videogame companies, trade association TIGA has sent over quotes from leading industry figures welcoming chancellor George Osborne's announcement.
Jason Kingsley, TIGA chairman, CEO and creative director of Rebellion:
UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has said in his Budget announcement this afternoon that government is to introduce tax relief for the nation's videogame companies.
In his speech at the House Of Commons, Osborne said the move was part of a bid to "turn Britan into Europe's technology centre, starting with digital content."
Following its suspension of share trading this morning, UK retailer Game has filed for administration.
"Further to this morning's announcement of the suspension of trading in shares of GAME Group plc, the board has concluded that its discussions with all stakeholders and other parties have not made sufficient progress in the time available to offer a realistic prospect for a solvent solution for the business,” a statement from the company explains.
Two Thatgamecompany staffers have left the Journey and Flower developer to form indie studio The Wilderness.
Game designer Chris Bell and Feel Engineer John Nesky will now focus on finishing Way, a finalist at the Independent Games Festival which is currently available as a free alpha build.
Game Group's board has presented interested parties with four potential next steps for the retailer after a period of consultation with Game's major suppliers and a financial specialist, it has been reported.
MCV sources suggest that Game Group is planning to voluntarily enter into administration this weekend before opening a new company on Monday. It would be funded by current lenders, include only the chains UK and Spanish networks and lead to the abolition of Gamestation.
Two U.S. politicians have backed a bill that proposes violent games be labelled with tobacco product-style warning labels.
Virginia Representative Frank Wolf and California Representative Joe Baca have co-sponsored bill H.R. 4202, otherwise known as the Violence in Video Games Labelling Act.
Ailing UK retailer Game Group has suspended trading of its shares pending "clarification of the company's financial position".
In a statement, the board said that the company's value had been eroded.
"The Board now considers itself to be unable to assess the business's financial position, and is of the opinion that there is no equity value left in the Group."
Future Publishing has released a Vita Special on Newsstand complete with embedded video and bespoke design.
The magazine is available to purchase through the Official PlayStation Magazine UK, Gamesmaster or PSM3 container apps and costs £1.49.
It mightn’t be quite as hard-edged as its title suggests, but Alvion’s third-person arena brawler is bracingly unforgiving, throwing its players into a series of testing encounters with the bare minimum of instructions. Often you’ll spend as much time battling with the camera as your opponents, thanks to a capricious lock-on system whose idiosyncrasies only become apparent after repeated play. It can be tough, awkward and occasionally archaic in its systems, but it is a welcome reminder that the boss battle is far from a lost art.
This is the first in a regular series of contributions from Dead End Thrills creator Duncan Harris, exploring the art and science of gaming’s most historic projects. Lovingly captured galleries of these and other games can be found at Dead End Thrills.
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This is the first in a regular series of contributions from Dead End Thrills creator Duncan Harris, exploring the art and science of gaming’s most historic projects. Lovingly captured galleries of these and other games can be found at Dead End Thrills.
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PopCap Games has announced Zuma's Revenge, a sequel to its Zuma puzzler released for PC and Mac in 2009, for Xbox Live Arcade.
The original was first released all the way back in 2003, and the enhanced Zuma Deluxe launched on XBLA in 2005. Revenge adds two brand-new modes, including Boss Rush and Weekly Challenge, and its mechanics have been updated too: there are no lives, no checkpoints and no more game over screens.
A survey of over 2,000 mobile app developers has found evidence of waning interest in Google's Android OS for a fourth consecutive quarter.
Gamesindustry.biz reports that the survey, conducted by Appcelerator and analyst firm IDC every three months, polled 2,173 developers and found that 78.6 per cent expressed interest in developing for Android.
Nottingham Trent University has issued a first call for submissions ahead of this year's Interactive Technologies And Games (ITAG) conference.
The event, which runs as part of Nottingham Trent's annual GameCity festival, will focus on issues of accessibility and rehabilitation for peopel with disabilities through interactive technology and games.
LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule has a number of jobs going at it's Guildford, Surrey studio, including a space for an experienced programmer and lead audio designer working on the company's current and future projects. Find all Media Molecule's jobs here.
Incoboto is set in a galaxy that’s used up and burnt out, so it’s the task of your tiny explorer to travel across the wilderness of space restoring light to the darkness. It’s a game about universal heat death, in other words, but it’s surprisingly sweet with it.
Blizzard Entertainment says it is "really happy" with the monthly subscription model despite falling numbers of World Of Warcraft subscribers amid the meteoric rise of free-to-play.
Speaking to our friends at PC Gamer, WOW producer John Lagrave insisted that Blizzard had no intention of switching its flagship MMOG to the freemium model, under which games are free-to-play and revenue comes from sales of virtual goods.
Australian developer Halfbrick Studios says it intends to expand the likes of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride to "web platforms and Facebook" following the acquisition of Spanish firm Onan Games.
Free mobile apps monetised with in-app advertising drain more battery than their paid equivalents, a new study has found.
Flash gaming portal Kongregate has tripled revenue from sales of virtual goods in the last year.
Frontier Developments boss David Braben has hit out at pre-owned games, saying that retailers' focus on second-hand games is "killing singleplayer games."
Speaking to Gamasutra, the Elite creator said the dominance of pre-owned at retail meant publishers were loath to greenlight games without multiplayer components because they would be traded in quickly, and argued that second-hand sales were to blame for the high price of new games.