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Tonight’s episode of Channel 4 show The Secret Millionaire will star CEX founder Bobby Dudani. The successful retail boss will visit Croydon to speak and work with victims of the London 2011 riots in Croydon, which suffered some of the most severe disturbance. CEX itself suffered at the hands of …
Read More »Watch Dogs: Made in Britain
Ubisoft’s new IP took the world by storm when it debuted in E3 – and it’s being made in Britain. Well, partly in Britain. Watch Dogs’ main developer Ubisoft Montreal is collaborating with Newcastle-based studio Ubisoft Reflections. Reflections’ most recent product was Driver: San Francisco, a game praised for both …
Read More »GamesAid Euro 2012 football quiz kicks off
With England about to embark on its Euro 2012 ‘adventure’ in just a few short hours, games charity GamesAid has kicked off its own Euro 2012 competition. All you need to do to take part is donate 10 at GamesAid’s JustGiving page and then email your answers to the questions …
Read More »Microsoft plans SmartGlass support ‘for all first-party titles’
Recently unveiled tech to be a single app
Read More »Assassin’s Creed 3 made possible by annualised releases
Ubisoft has stressed that the impressive Assassin’s Creed III has only been made possible due to the annualised release of the franchise. Some critics had attacked the publisher’s decision to elongate the Assassin’s Creed II world with two subsequent console releases – Brotherhood and Revelations. "We have multiple groups now …
Read More »Antix Labs platform hitting Indonesia
Telkomsel and MLW Telecom revealed as the first customers for Antix Game Player
Read More »Digital predicted to account for 66% of market by 2017
A new report from DFC Intelligence predicts that digitally distributed games will account for 66 per cent of total overall games revenue by 2017. It also predicts a significant expansion in the overall games software market, which it believes will grow from $52m now to $70bn in five years. Interestingly, …
Read More »Antix Labs Player hitting Indonesia
UK tech firm Antix Labs is to establish its eponymous games distribution platform in Indonesia. Antix has been beavering away on the Antix Game Player for years. Its vision is to create a new format that allows gamers to play, share and even copy games with friends whatever the device …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Ghost Recon top in largely static Top 40
It’s three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It holds on to the top spot despite a 48 per cent week-on-week fall in sales. It joins an exclusive club of titles …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 DLC details leak
A Reddit tipster has seemingly leaked the first details of Mass Effect 3’s ending-altering DLC. User dertemp6698, who Kotaku credits as trustworthy owing to previous accurate leaks, published the following press blurb for the content: An expanded ending for Mass Effect 3. Additional scenes and an extended epilogue reveal the …
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