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We took the short trip to Pune on Friday for the first ever Ubiday Pune, where the Ubisoft welcomed journalists and other game developers from around India to get a glimpse of what goes on at its Pune studio. Syed Abbas spoke about the challenges of brining the older Splinter …
Read More »Wii U twin GamePad games due some time in 2013
Titles that support two Wii U GamePads simultaneously are expected to arrive in 2013. Twin GamePad functionality was missing from Nintendo’s early Wii U previews but was added in after repeated requests from press and early users. However, Nintendo’s 100+ price for individual GamePads in Japan – and the omission …
Read More »UK games retail at another all-time low as momentum falters
The UK games retail market suffered its worst week on record last week. Again. Software sales plunged 30 per cent in the week ending September 8th to just 370,443 games sold. All together this generated an all-time low revenue figure of just 7.76m. The sudden drop comes after weeks of …
Read More »Sleeping Dogs maintains its UK chart top-dog status
Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs has claimed its fourth UK number one. The open-world action title has surpassed all expectations, having held the top spot for four of the last five weeks, with NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 briefly interrupting in its week of release. To win this week it had to …
Read More »HMV wants its Oxford Street store to be home of new national game launches
HMV wants its West End Oxford Street store to become the new home for midnight game launches. It follows the closure of GAME?Oxford Street – which for years had been the publishers’ choice for official launch events. Since Game no longer has a major West End presence, we hope publishers …
Read More »Zynga responds to EA lawsuit with a counter claim of its own
Over a month after EA filed its copyright lawsuit against Zynga, the social gaming giant has responded with a suit of its own. Not only is Zynga denying EA’s claim that The Ville is a blatant rip-off of The Sims Social, but it has also mustered some accusations of its …
Read More »Zynga files countersuit against EA
Social games giant claims unfair competition over alleged no-hire agreement
Read More »Report: Wii U Deluxe GameStop pre-orders sold out
Pre-orders for the Wii U Deluxe edition have apparently reached their allotted numbers across all US Gamestop stores. A report out of Polygon claims that reservations for the currently definitive Wii U package have been filled ‘company wide’ in America. The basic bundle is likely to follow suit sometime soon …
Read More »Minecraft Pocket Edition out now for Kindle
The Pocket Edition of Minecraft has arrived for the Kindle Fire. It runs $7, same as the iOS and Android versions, and is available to purchase now on the Amazon Appstore. Joystiq points out persistent Kindle Fire owners had already found a way to play the game on the tablet …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 9-15
Finally a bit of a shake-up this week on the Steam top ten product charts, as Borderlands 2 has seized the top spot ahead of its launch. On top of that, the game’s DLC season pass offering also clawed its way onto the list finishing in the tenth position. The …
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