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Deep Silver has turned to the iPhone to sell a mobile tool that works in conjunction with the firm’s upcoming action horror game Dead Island. The Dead Island app allows customers to track their progress in the retail version of the game, as well as locate collectibles and track mission …
Read More »Dead Island app merges mobile and console play
Unique iPhone app used as tool for console counterpart
Read More »New Halo toys march to retail
Mega Bloks is celebrating ten years of Halo with a new line of figures. The toy firm will bring Series 3 Micro Action Figures to retailers aswell as new brick-style vehicles and structures from the series by theend of September. The goodies – which range from 1.99 Hero Figure Packs …
Read More »Sony targets teens with new PSP
SCEE chief Jim Ryan says a sub-90 PSP will grow the platform’s audience and draw in the younger consumer. A new-look PSP was unveiled at Gamescom last month. As well as a fresh design, it omits the wi-fi functionality and has a new budget price. You will see the audience …
Read More »Gears of War 3’s ‘exploding graffiti’
Xbox is kicking off its Gears of War 3 campaign with a bang – literally. The third instalment in the 13m selling shooter series – out Tuesday, September 20th – will receive a huge marketing campaign consisting of store takeovers, print activity, first-of-its-kindlive TV ads and special graffiti art made …
Read More »Old 360s no longer sold by GAME
Both GAME and Gamestation have stopped selling pre-owned versions of older Xbox 360 consoles, it has confirmed. The move affects Xbox 360 Core and Arcade models as well as older devices that don’t offer HDMI support. Consumers will still be able to trade these devices in in-store. The move has …
Read More »Deus Ex DLC detailed
Square Enix has confirmed details about the first DLC that its Eidos Montral studio will release for chart hit Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Called ‘The Missing Link’, it details the events of a three-day period in which protagonist Adam Jensen went missing in Human Revolution. He is tortured by Belltower …
Read More »New MW3 Xbox 360 revealed
COD XP: Activision has teamed up with Microsoft to create a special Xbox 360 bundle for the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The package includes a MW3-branded Xbox 360 console with a 320GB hard drive. Not only is the console designed to match the game’s battleworn theme, …
Read More »Lenovo ousts alleged poor Samsung tablet sales
First the HP TouchPad was abandoned before it even got going, and now it is claimed that another high-profile iPad 2 rival is having a tough time on the market. An executive at electricals firm Lenovo has claimed Samsung sold just 20,000 units of the 1m Galaxy Tabs it shipped …
Read More »Sony: MS policies are "protecting an inferior technology"
Microsoft’s policies that are designed to protect the Xbox 360 platform are to the detriment of the wider industry and the consumer, Sony has claimed. The attack comes after it was revealed that Microsoft has a number of strict policies in place for potential publishers, including an unwillingness to publish …
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