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Bethesda Softworks Europe has signed up a new futuristic racer made for the Wii by Archer Maclean’s studio Awesome Play. Due out in autumn 2009 the game, called Wheelspin, is described as a ‘a high-energy racing, high-impact game spread across a wide range of inter-planetary tracks’. The game features solo, …
Read More »Monster Hunter Tri heading West
Publisher Capcom has announced that Japanese mega hit Monster Hunter Tri will be released in the UK and Europe early next year. Tri marks the series’ first foray onto Wii and Capcom hopes that the combination of one of its key IPs and the hugely popular Wii will result in …
Read More »Countdown to Cologne
The inaugural Gamescom trade fair takes place in just over two weeks. For those planning to go – and those who still need convincing – we’ve put together a special preview to the event and Cologne city guide. This six-page supplement details everything you need to know about what is …
Read More »JAPAN: DS pirate jailed
Hot on the heels of Nintendo releasing a brand new piracy-fighting patch for its DSi console, Nintendo’s anti-piracy efforts have been further bolstered by the successful prosecution of a high-profile DS pirate in Japan. Kotaku reports that 38 year old Yoshiaki Asagiri has been handed a two and a half …
Read More »Gearbox offloading Heat IP
Gearbox Software has revealed that it may sell to other studios the right to develop a game based on the 1995 Michael Mann film Heat. The ten year-old Texan developer, currently at the closing stages of the Borderlands project, said it didn’t have the time resources to work on a …
Read More »Call of Duty returning to DS
Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that a new DS entry in the Call of Duty series will arrive alongside the console release of Modern Warfare 2 this November. Developed by n-Space, the game will include a range of weapons and vehicles, with players taking control of AC-130 gunships and will …
Read More »EA dates first Sims 3 expansion
When it comes to in-game expansions, no-one does it quite like EA did it with Sims 2 – and now the expansion ball has begun rolling for the recently released and highly successful The Sims 3. The debut pack will be called The Sims 3: World Adventures and will be …
Read More »DSi update cripples flash cards
Nintendo’s latest firmware update for its recently released handheld revamp the DSi renders many of the market’s high-profile flash card readers unusable, according to reports. CVG claims that the new firmware stops a number of the controversial systems inoperable, including iPlayer, EZVi and AK2I. One of the main uses of …
Read More »Warner plans Midway IP revamp
Following the media empire’s $49 million Midway takeover, Warner Bros has chosen to name two of the various franchises it has bought along with the company. As a result of the Midway acquisition, which includes the Mortal Kombat and SpyHunter franchises,” said the group, Warner Bros now has access to …
Read More »RETAIL BIZ: Todays charts & buying guide
MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view onlineand download now. Our special six-page supplement offers an in-depth look at this week’s official Gfk-ChartTrack multiformat Top 40 – once again dominated by Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort – as well as all of the official UK single and multi-format …
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