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Guerrilla Games’ 2004 PS2 shooter Killzone is to receive a release on PSN. Game Informer reports that it won’t be a full HD remake, but instead an emulated title offered as part of the existing PS2 library. It has been given a price of $9.99 in the US. The game …
Read More »Black Ops beats Modern Warfare 3 by 0.5m copies in UK
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may have shattered records left, right and centre, but it fell far short of its predecessor in the UK. As revealed by MCV this morning, ERA’s 2011 UK Entertainment charts reveals that Modern Warfare 3 sold 2,814,609 copies in the UK between its …
Read More »Gameloft cleared after ‘120 hour crunch’ probe
'No substantial evidence' of health and safety laws breach
Read More »3DS performance has "confounded naysayers", says Sony
Though the PlayStation Vita is still suffering from low sales in Japan, Sony has been encouraged by the improved fortunes of the 3DS. That’s according to SCEE president and CEO Jim Ryan, who told MCV that Nintendo’s success bodes well for the portable market. One of the encouraging things about …
Read More »GAME PR boss departs
PR manager Neil Ashurst has departed GAME Group this week after three and a half years at the firm. He will be joining PR agency Romley Davies, where he will head up the company’s newly-signed Blockbuster account. He will support the rental chain’s growing games offering, as well as its …
Read More »Japanese Vita sales flat as 3DS soar
Sony’s new handheld has maintained a steady level of sales in its fourth week on the market, but Nintendo has widened the gap. Vita sold 42,915 units in the week ending January 8th, a slight improvements on the 42,468 units from the previous week. Sony claims 500,000 units have been …
Read More »We must do better with Move, Sony admits
The new boss of SCE UK has told MCV that the company should have sold more PlayStation move units in the UK than it has. I’d say we have a solid foothold with [Move],” Fergal Gara told MCV. Could it, should it, have done more? I think so. It is …
Read More »HMV laments tough games market
HMV’s Xmas would have been a lot better had there been more video games to sell, says CEO Simon Fox. His words came ahead of news that the firm has merged its games and technology teams, leading to the departure of popular games boss Tim Ellis. Ewan Pinder is now …
Read More »Sony dismisses Vita launch fears
PlayStation says it is impossible and dangerous to judge PS Vita’s UK launch on its ‘slow’ start in Japan. Despite selling some 325,000 units in its first weekend, Vita fell behind PSP and 3DS in Japan during its second and third week, which sparked a string of negative reports in …
Read More »Adele demolishes Call of Duty as 2011’s biggest entertainment property
Singing sensation Adele sold over 1m more copies of her latest album than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The FPS loses its crown as the UK’s biggest entertainment property in terms of units sold, although it remains No.1 in value. Call of Duty topped the same list in both …
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