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Read More »Premiership football comes to PSP
PSP owners will be able to download highlights of football matches from the Barclay’s Premiership via video service Go!View, Sony has announced. From Sunday, 17th August, users will be able to transfer 45 minutes of extended highlights from Sky Sports matches. The football content on Go!View is available as part …
Read More »Engine Software unveils the Pulse Sound System
Renamed DS audio middleware now official 3rd party tool
Read More »Nintendo takes aim at South America
Nintendo is plotting an aggressive Spanish marketing campaign in Latin America to boost sales of its hardware. The promotional assault will most like happen before Christmas and will focus on sports and fitness games. The platform holder believes the territory’s video game market could be worth up to $2 billion …
Read More »Burnout Paradise to cut out retail
In a move that will likely send shudders through the entire retail chain, EA-owned studio Criterion has confirmed that its recent release Burnout Paradise is to be made available as a full download on Sony’s PlayStation Store on PS3. Priced at $29.99 in North America, the game will be available …
Read More »Kotick slams Warner Music
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has hit out at Warner Music – after the firm demanded games publishers should pay more royalties for tracks used in rhythm-based software. In what the Financial Times calls ‘a sign of increasing tensions between the two companies’, Kotick said Warner Music had failed to …
Read More »Microsoft looks to bridge the gap between XBLA and PCs
New 360 web service to make Marketplace content sale easier for developers and publishers
Read More »Another Batman game swings into view
As EA’s Dark Knight game continues to stutter under the weight of dodgy combat and a moody third person camera, this month’s edition of US mag Game Informer carries the scoop on yet another Batman title heading to retail – Eidos’ Batman: Arkham Asylum. The mag describes the game as …
Read More »Consumers dont want Blu-Ray
A new survey from US research firm ABI has suggested that consumers are not that interested in Bu-Ray technology, with only 23 per cent of the 1000 respondents claiming they were thinking of investing in the technology sometime in the next year. TechTree reports that over half of those questioned …
Read More »Dead Rising to bite PS3 next?
Its popularity on Xbox 360 was great enough to make its recently confirmed move to Wii a reality, but now developer Capcom has hinted that Dead Rising may also be upping sticks and heading over to Sony’s PS3. Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, Capcom’s John Diamonon responded to a …
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