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THQ stood a great chance of survival if it could have rode out the turbulence of the transitioning games industry. Popular consensus is that consolidation and downsizing will result in a leaner games industry in the future, with the spoils shared between a limited number of huge international publishers and …
Read More »Persona 4 Golden gets digital jump on retail release
RPG hit Persona 4 Golden will be released digitally BEFORE it goes on sale at retail. NIS America’s game will be released at UK retail on February 22nd, although Vita owners will now be able to download the title from PSN from February 20th. It is becoming increasingly common for …
Read More »Disney to access its game content for unacceptable violence
Lawmakers and pundits across the nation are jumping on the anti-game violence bandwagon, and Disney’s CEO plans to keep his company out of increasingly turbulent waters. The relationship between games and violence is once more a question of national interest in the wake of the Newtown school shooting. Multiplebills, and …
Read More »Chinese console ban lift nears – Sony and Nintendo shares surge
Console manufacturers could be on the verge of a potentially very significant payday. The Guardian reports that talk coming from China suggests the state is preparing to lift its decade-long ban on the sale of games consoles. The ban was introduced in 2000 to safeguard children’s mental and physical development”. …
Read More »Tim Berners-Lee: Coders can do incredible things
Creator of the World Wide Web calls for children to be educated in computer science early on
Read More »God of War: Ascension buyers to get The Last of Us demo
All launch copies of God of War: Ascension will come with access to a playable demo for The Last of Us, Sony has announced. However, that demo will not be included on the Ascension disc. It will be released at a later date and will have to be downloaded. The …
Read More »Freelance journo Irvine launches dlcentral.co.uk
A new consumer website has launched that intends to offer unrivalled coverage of downloadable digital games content. It’s called dlcentral.co.uk and is run by freelancer Nathan Irvine. Irvine’s a familiar face to many in the industry following his successful eight year stint at Future publishing where he began at PSM2 …
Read More »HMV bank syndicate turned down offers higher than Hilco’s
Hilco’s bid for HMV’s debt was not the highest on the table, it has been claimed. The Telegraph reports that the eight-bank syndicate of lenders including RBS and Lloyds who are owed the bulk of HMV’s outstanding debt feared that their reputations would be tarnished were they to turn the …
Read More »Hilco could close up to half of HMV stores
HMV now looks very likely to survive on the UK High Street – at a price. The Daily Mail reports that Hilco could close around half of HMV’s 223 UK stores in the hope that a streamlined version of the chain can live on. It’s the same strategy that the …
Read More »Slender Rising tries to recapture Eight Pages horror on your iOS device, free version available
Developer Michael Hegemann has released his take on the hugely popular Slender Man game Slender. Called Slender Rising, the 1.49 download (a free version is also available) follows the template laid down by free PC outing Slender in that players are tasked with finding pages scattered throughout both the Cursed …
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