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The next Assassin’s Creed will arrive earlier than usual as Ubisoft looks to grow its best-selling franchise. Assassin’s Creed III hits retail on October 31st for PS3, 360 and PC.?That’s two weeks earlier than its usual mid-November release window. Ubisoft believes the game will hold its own against the Q4 …
Read More »GameStop in for GAME’s Iberian stores?
The deafening silence on GameStop’s intentions towards GAME continues, though one UK newspaper claims that an acquisition may be close. Specifically, The Independent believes that GameStop is readying a move for GAME’s 291 Spanish and Portuguese stores. It does not indicate that GAME’s 610 UK outlets would factor into the …
Read More »Epic announces Infinity Blade: Dungeons
Epic has used the iPad 3 Apple press conference to unveil a new game in the Infinity Blade series. Infintiy Blade: Dungeons is set several thousand years before the original Infinity Blade game, which grossed $10 million in its first six months on sale. Just like Apple has raised the …
Read More »New iPad prices – Carphone Warehouse reveals cheapest trade-in deals
The New Apple iPad will be released in the UK on March 16th and already consumers are in a scramble to find where they can get their hands on the device and how much it will cost. The standard pricing is as follows. For the Wi-Fi machine prices start at …
Read More »iPad 3 officially unveiled
Apple has just announced the new iPad complete with a host of new features and goodies. As rumored, the new iPad packs ‘Retina Display’, a new mobile chip, a significant camera upgrade, and more. "The new iPad has a Retina Display. 2048×1536. The best mobile display that has ever shipped," …
Read More »Swedish gaming award’s people’s choice voting still open
Dataspelsgalan 2012 has been delayed until late March/early April, but the voting for the people’s choice award is still open. The awards will be chosen by a group of gaming journalists and gaming industry experts who are now deliberating and voting on who gets the big prizes this year. But …
Read More »Best practices for Facebook arcade games
Matt Wyndowe explores the growing arcade game scene on the social networking site
Read More »Silent Hill HD Collection is dated
Konami has announced a March 29th release date for Silent Hill HD Collection on PS3 and Xbox 360. The firm has also released a new teaser video that can be seen below. The SKU includes remastered versions of PS2 releases Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3. As you’d expect …
Read More »BT and TalkTalk lose three strikes appeal
The Digital Economy Act anti file-sharing legislation received a boost as the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court ruling that backed the DEA. British ISPs BT and TalkTalk had brought the appeal as the firm’s argued against controversial measures in the act that would force ISPs to send …
Read More »Lulzsec ‘leader’ outed as FBI insider
Infamous LulzSec hacking group leader Sabu has been cooperating with the FBI for several months as part of an investigation that has resulted in a number of arrests both sides of the Atlantic. Sabuwas unmaskedas 28-year-old unemployed New Yorker hector Xavier Monsegur and reports have suggested that he has been …
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