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Having been threatened with legal action in a US court, EA has decided that it will now offer a free copy of digital shooter Battlefield 1943 to owners of Battlefield 3 on PS3. Having announced the promotion earlier in the year, the release of Battlefield 3 came and went without …
Read More »Messi defects from PES to FIFA
Barcelona and Argentina football star Lionel Messi has been signed by EA as its new global face of the EA Sports FIFA franchise”. The move is all the more significant as superstar Messi has in recent years been the face of rival Konami’s PES series. Messi’s first FIFA appearance will …
Read More »Microsoft insists again: Xbox Live "has not been hacked"
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has responded to the latest claims from UK newspaper The Sun, insisting for a second time that Xbox Live has most certainly not been hacked. The assurance comes despite ongoing claims from The Sun that users have not succumb merely to a phishing scam. Indeed, …
Read More »The Sun fights back in Xbox Live ‘hacking’ saga
UK national newspaper The Sun is not sitting down in its campaign about alleged Xbox Live hacking. Earlier this week The Sun ran a story on the front page claiming that users of Xbox Live were seeing their accounts hacked and money stolen. Microsoft responded by denying any talk of …
Read More »PlayStation Move sales closing on Kinect
Kinect may be a more familiar fixture in the headlines, but a new report suggests that PlayStation Move may be steadily closing the sales gap. In fact, IndustryGamers reckons that Move is no only around a million units behind Kinect, which has sold 10m worldwide according to Microsoft’s most recent …
Read More »"It would be undesirable to launch PS4 later than the competition"
Sony has hinted that it intends to ensure that the next Xbox does not enjoy the same headstart in the market that the Xbox 360 had over the PS3. And with Xbox 360 being heavily rumoured for either next year or 2013, that means the PS4 is likely far closer …
Read More »$1 billion Nexon IPO ‘dated for December’
Free-to-play publisher 'could be worth more than Electronic Arts'
Read More »‘A new Future business is taking shape’ – new CEO Wood
Future’s new CEO Mark Wood predicts the company will be quite different once it is ‘transition to a digital business model’ is complete. In his statement published with today’s full-year results – ‘disappointing’ numbers that show the US business dragging down UK performance – he said that Future sees opportunity …
Read More »Future looks ahead after ‘disappointing’ results
Future’s full-year results show ‘resilience’ in its UK business – but the US business continues to slow the Group down. So it will merge the two to create "a singleglobal product line". This morning the firm announced that strong digital revenue growth (up 36 per cent) in the UK has …
Read More »Single virtual item ‘makes £1.7m in four days’
Bigpoint delight as â?¬1000 in-game item is sold in the thousands
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