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THQ has announced the Australian and New Zealand retailers for its Saints Row: The Third ‘Maximum Pleasure’ and ‘Smooth Criminal’ editions. JB HiFi will be carrying the ‘Maximum Pleasure Edition’, which will feature the game, a Professor Genki stuntman key-ring, hyper-replica head and a banner pen, and will retail for …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Warner’s sales vacancy, Aikins joins Sony
In MCV’s latest rundown of the industry’s hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, Warner is looking for a new sales manager, THQ’s John Aikins heads to Sony and GAME hires a Knight. NEW SALES JOB AT WARNERWarner Bros Interactive Entertainment is hiring a new manager of sales analysis for the …
Read More »GAMESCOM: Did you miss anything?
The sun has set on another Gamescom, with only the consumer days left to go, but did you keep up with the week’s announcements? No? Well, fear not. Below, MCV provides a complete round-up of all the news to emerge from Gamescom over the past few days. SONYSony: Vita will …
Read More »GAME declassifies exclusive Modern Warfare 3 Intel Pack
Any consumers who pre-order the hotly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from GAME will receive an exclusive Classified Intel Pack. GAME will be handing over these special packs along with 360, PS3 and PC copies of the game when it is released on November 8th. Modern Warfare 3 …
Read More »Kinect lightsaber peripheral spotted
Whatever your feelings about Kinect Star Wars, only the coldest of hearts could fail to be excited about this news. Eurogamer reports that two German retailers have listed a lightsaber peripheral that is Kinect compatible and designed to work with Microsoft’s upcoming Kinect Star Wars. It is said to have …
Read More »HMV handing out One Direction Miis
Retailer HMV has joined forces with X-Factor band One Direction for an iexclusive in-store give-away. As of Monday August 22nd the first band member to be transformed into a Nintendo Mii – Liam – will be distributed as a QR code on the One Direction Facebook and Twitter streams. Then …
Read More »Vita RAM confirmed at 512MB
Handheld's specs comparable to PS3's
Read More »Valve: We need to reward Sony for opening PS3
PlayStation 'will gain value by opening its console to outside networks'
Read More »INTERVIEW: Andrew Wilson, EA Sports
The new EA Sports president has an ambitious plan to have all the label’s games run as connected cross-platform experiences. But, he tells Michael French, that means some tough decisions for retailers, publishers and console manufacturers During your Develop conference keynote last month you said customers had lost interest in …
Read More »Xenoblade suffers stock shortages
The long-awaited cult JPRG Xenoblade Chronicles has finally arrived in the UK today, but consumers might not be able to get their hands on it just yet. Online retailer ShopTo.net has confirmed to MCV that the game is suffering from stock shortages after a surge of last-minute demand has exceeded …
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