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GAME Australia has introduced a revamped reward card scheme which has ruffled a few feathers down under with (pictured) risque advertising. The new scheme, dubbed GAME ON, rewards consumers with 10 points per $1 spent, with 1000 points being claimable as $2 back on in-store purchases. Ben Grant, marketing director …
Read More »Dinoroar Interactive releases Tapmatic
Australian indie developer Dinoroar Interactive has announced today the launch of its new iOS game Tapmatic. The game is a memory-based game of duplication, where players are tasked with recreating an increasingly difficult coloured sequence of button presses. Aileen Bautista, founder and CEO of Dinoroar, said: "This game isn’t for …
Read More »Adults ‘generate 80% of freemium app money’
But younger customers play for longer
Read More »MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (week ending Sept 9th)
We look at the year-on-year change in overall advertising activity for video games on TV from March 27th to August 21st. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. This week we also explain whether there has been a year-on-year change in the …
Read More »Crysis for Xbox 360 and PS3 to be digital release
The freshly announced Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of 2007 PC shooter Crysis will be digital-only releases. The game, which was only announced this morning, will cost 1600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live Games on Demand (around 13.70) or 15.99 on the PlayStation Network. It will differ from the original …
Read More »Deus Ex Human Revolution ships 2m copies
Having topped the UK charts for two weeks now, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC title Deus Ex: Human Revolution, publisher Square Enix has announced that it has now shipped 2m copies of the game. It was first released in the US on August 23rd with a European release on August …
Read More »Team Meat "won’t work with Microsoft again"
Outspoken indies Team Meat will no longer have a commercial partnership with Microsoft, a co-founder at the studio has said. Edmund McMillen has criticised the Xbox manufacturer for its lack of support during production of the 2010 XBLA hit Super Meat Boy. I don’t think we’ll work with them [Microsoft] …
Read More »GAME apologises for website outage
Two weeks after the launch of its brand new website, retailer GAME has apologised for the disruption that the troubled period has caused for its customers. Problems have included website outages, locked accounts, pre-order and account management issues and quirks with both the Reward Points and order cancellation systems. Here …
Read More »PopCap cuts iOS prices, fingers point at EA
A range of games by casual giant PopCap have been reduced to their lowest possible price point on the App Store. The tactic sees several iPhone games reduced from 1.99 to 69p, including the likes of Plants vs Zombies and Peggle. While the App Store price cuts are a rarity …
Read More »The EA effect: PopCap slashes app prices
Plants vs Zombies and Peggle join 69p sales rush
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