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One disgruntled Blockbuster customer took matters into his own hands when told he could not receive a refund for his PS4 pre-order. Blockbuster confirmed just hours after announcing its intention to re-enter administration that next-gen pre-orders would be refunded in full. But the BBC reports that the 31 year-old Adam …
Read More »New PlayStation 4 games to be announced day before launch
More PlayStation 4 games are to be announced the night before the console is released in North America. GameTrailersTV’s Geoff Keighley tweeted that the website will be doing a #PS4ALLACCESS event on November 14th and said there will be ‘world premieres and announcements.’ These will definitely involve new games. Compared …
Read More »Head to GAME Stratford for your official Call of Duty: Ghosts launch event
The official UK launch event for Call of Duty: Ghosts will take place at GAME’s Stratford store at Westfield tonight. The event begins at 6:00pm although there will be raffles drawn at 6:30pm, 7:30pm and 8:30pm, the winners of which will get a free ticket and transport to the official …
Read More »Call of Duty: Ghosts – price roundup, where’s cheapest?
The big hits just keep coming this time of year and tonight it’s the turn of Call of Duty: Ghosts, which arrives worldwide at midnight. Although it will have to perform far beyond expectations to topple Grand Theft Auto V’s record-breaking 2013 performance, Ghosts will undoubtedly be one of the …
Read More »Journey and Unfinished Swan not coming to PS4
Neither Journey nor The Unfinished Swan are coming to PlayStation 4. Speculation that the pair were heading to Sony’s new console began after Sony Santa Monica’s creative director Nathan Gary tweeted pictures of Flower, Escape Plan and flOw being played on the machine. Pictures of The Unfinished Swan and Journey …
Read More »Join the games elite at London Games Conference
Iconic games, media and entertainment firms have confirmed their place at next week’s London Games Conference. Activision, Disney, GFK, Konami, Mediacom, Multiplay, Penguin Digital, Sega, Wikia and Yogscast are just a few of the companies with execs in attendance. If you want to join them, hurry: few tickets remain. Click …
Read More »VIDEO: Megan Fox stars in live-action Call of Duty: Ghosts trailer
Call of Duty: Ghosts is out tomorrow, and Activision has launched a new hype-inducing trailer to boot. The publisher has even recruited Hollywood starlet Fox to make a cameo appearance in the new live-action video. Epic Night Out, as it’s called, has a group of four average Joes blast their …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag beats Battlefield 4 to No.1
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag has won this week’s heated race to claim the UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK No.1 spot. EA’s Battlefield 4 has to settle for second place in its first week, although both titles fail to match the numbers recorded by their respective previous instalments – presumably …
Read More »Bungie wants a million gamers "crashing against" Destiny beta
Destiny developer Bungie is hoping to get a ton of testers in on the game’s beta in hopes to avoid many of the issues the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online faced. Speaking with IGN, Bungie senior writer Eric Obsborne discussed how the team needs a large number of gamers …
Read More »Google Play boasts more downloads, half the revenue of App Store
The Google Play store saw 25 per cent more downloads this past quarter than Apple’s App Store, but was still behind in revenue by 50 per cent. The figures come from App Annie’s Q3 2013 report, which states that new markets in Brazil and Argentina have had a major influence …
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