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Gameloft’s Modern Combat series will make its console debut in January with a downloadable PlayStation Move title The company has announced Modern Combat: Domination will be released through PSN next month. The game will be a multiplayer shooter and will be compatible with Sony’s new motion controller, according to Kotaku. …
Read More »360 most played console online
Xbox 360 owners spend more time playing online than PS3 and Wii players, research has revealed. 54 per cent of Xbox 360 gamers play video games online, compared to 46 per cent of PS3 players and 27 per cent of Wii owners. A survey from research firm Nielsen also shows …
Read More »Bigpoint tops 1bn daily transactions
Bigpoint has announced that its network of browser-based games now generates over one billion transactions every day. The publisher is best known for its online titles such as SeaFight and Dark Orbit, as well as an MMO based on Battlestar Galactica, which launched earlier this year. Bigpoint operates 60 different …
Read More »SpecialEffect opens games room
The world’s first fully accessible video games suite has opened at Helen and Douglas House Children’s Hospice in Oxfordshire. The room was created and funded by gaming charity SpecialEffect, and allows all of the hospice’s guests to enjoy playing video games – no matter what physical disabilities they may have. …
Read More »Euro 3DS announcement next month
Platform holder Nintendo will reveal its launch plans for new handheld the 3DS at a media event in Amsterdam on January 19th, MCV believes. Invites for the still mysterious gathering have been sent out to the press this morning. It’s expected that details will include a firm launch date and …
Read More »Retail told to pass on VAT increase
Major UK distributors have advised games retailers of new SRPs to accommodate next month’s VAT increase, confirming that trade prices will not be lowered. Earlier this month retail pleaded with suppliers to lower their trade prices so as to remove pressure to lower margins. If this isn’t done, retailers may …
Read More »The Xbox 360 faceplate experiment
Swappable faceplates were one of the Xbox 360’s key USPs when it burst onto the scene in 2005. Come 2010, however, and a few gel skins aside you won’t find much in the way of faceplates on the High Street. And the reason, Microsoft has said, is simple – hardly …
Read More »Games account for just 3.3% of piracy
A report from torrent blog TorrentFreak suggests that video game piracy accounts for just 3.3 per cent of all illegally available online content. The site gathered data from thousands of BitTorrent trackers to take s snapshot of what it estimated to be all publicly available torrents at the time. Out …
Read More »Inafune founds new studio
Keiji Inafune, the former Capcom salaryman who intently burnt bridges with his long-term employer, is rumoured to have founded his own indie studio. The Mega Man creator previously indicated he would not join another developer nor publisher after his shock resignation as Capcom’s international development boss. The likelihood of him …
Read More »Square Enix bosses draw ‘worldwide studio’ plan
Tech, team and IP sharing across studios as publisher aims to build global blockbusters
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