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Read More »Japanese gamers face RRP hike for Tomb Raider language support
Tomb Raider fans in Japan are being asked to buy $30 worth of additional content if purchasing the game on Steam. Kotaku reports that as of April 25th the Japanese Steam Store will offer a $30 ‘Japanese language pack’ that adds subtitles and a Japanese voice track to the game. …
Read More »Blackberry Z10: "Returns outnumbering sales"
The new flagship Blackberry Z10 seems to be in danger of turning into a commercial disaster. The Wall Street Journal has word from two separate reports that paint a tremendously worrying picture for the handset. The Z10 launched in various territories between January and March of this year. A report …
Read More »XCOM shooter loses its website
The future of 2K Games’ promised XCOM shooter is in doubt. DigitalTrends noticed that the game’s official website is no longer accessible. Users are now greeted with a 404 error message – that means the servers are active but the content has either been blocked or removed. Furthermore, the XCOM …
Read More »Hilco to cut 400 HMV jobs – report
New HMV owner Hilco will cut a further 400 jobs at the entertainment retailer, according to reports. The Times says that Hilco is targeting a net saving of 7.8m from HMV’s payroll. An internal staff memo has suggested that store security guards will be dropped from nearly all stores other …
Read More »Fez sells over 200,000 copies in its first year
Canadian developer says success allowed him to consider his next move
Read More »Three weeks at the top for BioShock: Infinite
BioShock Infinite remains the boss of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It’s the third successive UK No.1 for the game, although sales declined 44 per cent week-on-week. Square Enix’s Tomb Raider is at No.2 for the fourth week in a row although it suffers a …
Read More »Paul Collins joins Activision’s recruitment team
THQ's former global recruitment manager now at Call of Duty publisher
Read More »Xbox Live downtime serves as timely reminder of connected console perils
Many UK and American players were left unable to log into Xbox Live over the weekend. "We are still hard at work fixing the issue members are having signing in to Xbox Live,” a statement read. Rest assured we have every available resource working on fixing the problem." It also …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: April 6-13
Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling products chart for the week ending on April 13th. Strategy update Age of Empires II HD takes the top spot, beating out a rare tie for the runner-up spot with a heavily discounted Dishonored sharing space with Bioshock Infinite. The Walking Dead rises again …
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