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It’s only a few weeks now until Gears of War 3 is released.Over the three years since the previous game in the series, the term ‘Added Value’ is the tag that developers have been focusing on. We already know about Call of Duty Elite and the EA Sports Season Ticket, …
Read More »UK Software Sales Monitor: Market makes £13.7m
The UK games market slipped slightly this week, down six per cent in value to 13.7m and five per cent in units to 619,538. It may only be a slight dip, but retail would have been hoping for better – particularly with the release of Driver: San Francisco (debuting at …
Read More »GAME rolls out digital Xbox games nationwide
As of today every GAME and Gamestation store in the UK has a range of Xbox Live digital titles on their shelves. In February this year the range was trailed in 44 stores, with customers receiving a code to download the content either on a paper receipt, email or SMS …
Read More »Max Payne 3 release date revealed
Gritty, violent and, to be frank, all-round grumpy fella Max Payne will once again be hitting consoles and PC early next year. Rockstar has announced that Max Payne 3 will be released for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in March 2012. Protagonist Max has taken up the job of a …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Grimes returns to Xbox, Thompson promoted, Sony hires Gara
In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and biggest personnel news, there have been several changes made to the upper echelons of platform holders Sony and Microsoft. EXECUTIVE SHUFFLE FOR XBOX AND PLAYSTATION Jonathan Grimes (far left) has rejoined the team at Xbox UK as retail sales and …
Read More »Activision gains control of ModernWarfare3.com
Up until yesterday ModernWarfare3.com was not owned by Activision. Now, however, it is. In July publisher EA was accused of snapping up the domain so it could redirect fans to its own Battlefield 3 website. It transpired, though, that the URL was owned by Florida resident Anthony Abraham – a …
Read More »VC guru Hoag joins EA board
Move comes after several high profile execs have resigned from the publishing giant since March
Read More »Experts says digital will pass discs in two years
Sales of online games are expected to pass physical retail from 2013, an analyst at DFC Intelligence has claimed. The report predicts that online sales will increase from $19.3 billion in 2010 to $37.9 billion by 2016, driving the overall industry value to $81 billion.It also states that traditional retail …
Read More »Digital to surpass discs by 2013, analyst says
Industry predicted to be worth $81 billion by 2016; Physical 'has peaked'
Read More »VIDEO: See the F1 2011 debut ad
Codemasters kicks off its biggest TV campaign ever with this ad for F1 2011 – and you can watch it here first. The 30-second advertisement will runon ITV, Channel Four, Channel Five, E4, Film Four, Sky Atlantic and Sky Sports targeting men aged between 16 and 34 years old. It …
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