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Call of Duty: Black Ops II has been released. You might have noticed. Unusually last night’s midnight launches took place before the review embargo was lifted, leaving thousand waiting until this morning to discover whether the game now sitting in their consoles is any good. Fear not. It sounds fantastic. …
Read More »Games TM’s Ashley Day joins Nintendo PR team
Former games journalist Ashley Day has switched career paths to take a new PR role at Nintendo. Day joined the platform holder yesterday as junior PR manager, where he reports to Nintendo UK’s head of communications Jo Bartlett. He will work alongside fellow junior PR manager Emily Woolliscroft. He has …
Read More »IN PICTURES: Retail ushers in Black Ops II release
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is here at last, and thousand of store workers and gamers took to the streets last night to welcome it. The official launch took place at HMV’s Oxford Street store and was attended by a number of celebrities. Blockbuster also saw a fantastic turnout …
Read More »Valve confirms Source 2 engine in development
Valve’s Gabe Newell has put a confirmation sticker on the Source 2 engine reports that have cropped up over the past few months. Joystiq reports that the company’s boss was ‘confronted’ on his birthday from fans of 4chan’s /v/board – confirming some "We’ve been working on new engine stuff for …
Read More »Minecraft surges past 8m copies on PC
Mojang’s indie hit Minecraft has surpassed 8m units sold on PC. "The PC version of Minecraft just passed 8 million sales!" The game’s creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson announced on twitter. "My face is making grinning sounds, so I assume it’s grinning!” It took less than three months for the game …
Read More »Halo 4 sets entertainment bar with $220m on launch day
Halo 4 has set a launch day record across all entertainment mediums. Microsoft has announced the latest in the sci-fi shooter has made $220m worldwide in its first 24 hours of availability. The figure makes the title the biggest entertainment launch of the year thus far – outperforming both 2012’s …
Read More »Stormcloud Games forms in Scotland
Studio initially working on browser game for children
Read More »Blackberry 10 to go public Jan 30th
New RIM smartphone platform hopes to revive mobile outfit's fortunes with 2013 release
Read More »ME Awards 2012 recognises the surge in mobile games
Huge tech celebration takes place on Thursday, November 29th 2012 at the Royal Garden Hotel, London
Read More »UK boxed video game sales plummet in October
Q4 has got off to a rough start for UK?games retail, with fewer games sold in October than September. In total 2.83m games were sold last month, a fall of 29.5 per cent over the same period a year ago. This is also 20.5 per cent down over September, which …
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