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I vividly remember the first time I experienced PS2. I’d just returned from a six-month stint in Sri Lanka where I had been doing voluntary work. While the urban squalor of Colombo and the isolation of the Sri Lankan jungle were great for many things, keeping abreast of development in …
Read More »The end of era – Sony has produced its last ever PS2
Sony has confirmed that it has ceased all production of the mighty PlayStation 2. It was reported last week that the company had called time on its Japanese production of the console, but Sony has now confirmed to The Guardian that all PS2 production worldwide has been wound down. The …
Read More »Code Hero backers demand update
Troubled Kickstarter project yet to issue promised progress report
Read More »Valve to unveil Linux-based Steam PC this year – report
Valve appears to have made plans to reveal its custom PC-console this year. According to a report on German site Golem (via PC Gamer), Valve engineer Ben Krasnow spoke on the upcoming hardware at the EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin, how it runs on Linux, and how a full reveal …
Read More »Warner Bros ponders THQ bid
Five potential buyers interested if more time allowed; court to reconvene Monday
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 30 – January 5
Valve has released Steam’s latest top ten sellers chart, highlighting the big winners for the latter half of the Steam Holiday Sale. Ubisoft’s blockbuster Far Cry 3 finished ahead of Runic’s popular dungeon crawling sequel Torchlight II. Skyrim, which finished in the runner-up spot last week, finishes one spot behind …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Brown heads Activision, top vacancies
In MCV’s weeklyrundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, former Activision UK MD Andrew Brown returns temporarily to the role and we look at the hottest job opportunities. BROWN HEADS UP ACTIVISION UK AS HEPWORTH DEPARTS Activision’s former UK managing director Andrew Brown has taken back his UK …
Read More »ANALYSIS: How HMV is hanging on
We are barely a week into the New Year and once again there is much talk about HMV’s financial troubles. The firm recently warned that it may breach lending agreements this month, and has been in constant talks with suppliers, banks and lenders over Christmas. And in what is becoming …
Read More »Future Crysis titles may abandon the FPS genre
Crysis 3 is unlikely to be the last in the series… but it could turn out to be the series’ last first person shooter. "At this point I don’t want to give anything away," Crytek producer Michael Elliot Read told OXM. "But I think the Crysis franchise itself has life …
Read More »GAME hosting EA lock-in events; Play Dead Space 3 early
UK retailer GAME is to host a number of EA lock-ins” across the country. The events will invite gamers to hang around after hours and get hands-on with a number of pre-release EA titles, starting with Dead Space 3. And pig out on free food and drink. Customers will have …
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