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MCV’s sister site Mobile Entertainment has this morning revealed a brand new look for the portal, which continues to be the leading news resource for mobile content on the internet. The sleek upgrade reinforces the site’s position as the leading news source for the global mobile content industry, featuring breaking …
Read More »JAPAN: PS3 enjoys best ever week
Having enjoyed a massive sales boost in the UK following the arrival of the new Slim incarnation last week, the launch of the PS3 Slim in Japan has propelled Sony’s machine to a new sales record. Kotaku reports that the PS3 Slim sold 150,252 in its first week of sale …
Read More »PS3 leads hardware charts race
Sony’s impressive sales leap this week following the launch of the PS3 Slim on September 1st has seen the console top the UK hardware sales charts for the first time since January 2008. PS3 software sales enjoyed a notable boom thanks to the increased hardware performance, up 17 per cent …
Read More »Cate West leaps up pre-order charts
Publisher Oxygen is braced for its biggest video game release to date, as its DS and Wii mystery Cate West: The Vanishing Files leaps up the pre-order charts. The game’s success has been assisted by a six-month PR push, as well as extensive online and in-store advertising ahead of its …
Read More »Clone Wars MMO inbound?
Whilst Sony and LucasArts’ first collaboration, Star Wars Galaxies, may have ultimately failed to compete in the crowded traditional MMO space, rumours are suggesting that the two companies are to team up once again – this time for a casual MMO based on the famous adventure franchise. All the details …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Batman still top
Eidos’ latest title based on the Caped Crusader, Batman: Arkham Asylum, is enjoying its second week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, despite continued pressure from Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort. The motion-based sports title has to settle for second spot for the third …
Read More »PS3 sales up 999%
Having launched at UK retail last Tuesday, Sony’s PS3 console has enjoyed a colossal week-on-week sales jump, with numbers of ChartTrack’s Week 36 showing a 999 per cent sales increase over the week before. ChartTrack has told MCV that it is not releasing specific sales numbers, but did say: The …
Read More »Havok the ‘untapped potential’ of low-end devices
And there's 'no major hurdles' in taking its middleware to Apple device, firm says
Read More »Microsoft: â??Big bets define our platformâ??
The 360 manufacturer reveals why it has placed faith in projects such as Natal and the long-delayed Alan Wake
Read More »Sony slams App Store’s ‘free access, no help’
Apple â??leaves developers out in the wildernessâ?? says SCEE's Colaco
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