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As predicted by MCV last week, Argos has begun to trial a pre-owned games service across select stores. The trial will run in 27 of its 735 stores, predominantly in the North-East of England at locations including Durham, Gateshead and Newcastle. Customers will be able to buy pre-owned titles from …
Read More »Crackdown 2 gets UK date
Microsoft has – via the medium of Twitter – announced that Xbox 360 exclusive superhero sandbox title Crackdown 2 will be released in the UK and Europe on July 9th. The game is being developed by new startup Ruffian Games, a studio formed by the founders of Realtime Worlds – …
Read More »SNK to grow UK market share
Renowned Japanese games firm SNK Playmore has set its sights on the UK market with the upcoming launch of Samurai Shodown Sen. The game is the latest in the long-running beat ‘em up series, and is due for an April release on Xbox 360 via Rising Star. We are thrilled …
Read More »Square Enix building â??next generationâ?? engine
Final Fantasy studio hiring for major systems overhaul
Read More »MW2 becomes UKs second best seller
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has added another notable notch to its bedpost with news that it is now the second best selling game ever in the UK video games market. In doing so Activision’s title overtakes the total UK lifetime sales of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, …
Read More »Multiplayer key to BFBC2s long tail
Post-release digital support titles is very much the trend nowadays and is proving a popular means of monetising new games, but EA sees its ongoing support for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as serving another purpose – toppling Modern Warfare 2. The game is such a quality package with a best-in-class …
Read More »THQ planning core digital push
The mounting pressure on retail has been turned up another notch with news that THQ is planning up to six download-only titles within the next 12 months, some of which will be based on its highest-profile IPs. The publisher’s VP of core games Danny Bilson told Joystiq that THQ’s plans …
Read More »GDC: Sony claims UMD is ‘alive and well’
PSP disc format backed for future dev opportunities
Read More »Silent Hunter 5 recalled in Germany
Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic has been recalled in Germany, due to offending World War 2-related imagery. Ubisoft has pulled the collector’s edition of the PC submarine war simulator, which features swastikas in its bonus content. The normal version of the game remains on sale. It is against …
Read More »Sony: UMD alive and well
Sony has claimed that its troubled UMD format is still going strong, and that it has no plans to drop the format in the foreseeable future. During a session at last week’s GDC, the platform holder insisted that UMD is alive and well” as a format and reiterated that all …
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