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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Prestige edition will be made available in the UK exclusively through HMV. The Prestige edition was unveiled earlier in the week by Infinity Ward, and features a collector’s bust of Captain ‘Soap’ MacTavish from the game, a special edition Steelbook, an art book, a …
Read More »The Price is Right
Is that a crime? In the eyes of some, yes. Activision played the poker face and said it doesn’t publicly discuss pricing when asked about the issue. But EA, for one, has emphatically denied it will raise prices this year. The last games company to do this – Nintendo, when …
Read More »Natal attraction
Some say Microsoft ‘won’ E3 with Natal. When did work on the new device begin? We started looking at controller-less gaming about four years ago. So it’s been quite a while. The great thing about Microsoft is that we are a big software company – and almost everything in Natal …
Read More »Aguilera suffers Wii Sports injury
Mirroring the incident that saw a staff writer inflict pain upon a colleague when Nintendo’s Wii first arrived at the Intent office, American pop star Christina Aguilera has reportedly suffered an injury whilst playing popular multiplayer romp Wii Sports. GameDaily reports that a source stated: Christina loves her Wii as …
Read More »Fans choose badass moniker for Atlus fighter
It’s hard to say whether Atlus would have called its upcoming PSP fighting title Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble were it not for the naming competition thrown open to fans – though the answer is probably not. Nonetheless, the Atlus Faithful fan community has spoken and that’s exactly what the game …
Read More »Dirt 2 dated for September
Codemasters has revealed that Colin McRae: Dirt 2 will launch worldwide in September. The off-road racer is set to hit PS3, 360, Wii, DS, PSP and PC on September 8th in the US, September 10th across Europe and September 11th in the UK. The game is developed in-house at Codemasters’ …
Read More »Natal will relaunch 360 on release
Microsoft Game Studios boss Phil Spencer has told MCV that the new Project Natal controller will effectively relaunch the 360 when it is released. Speaking to MCV in an exclusive interview, Spencer likened the arrival of the camera-based kit – which senses player movements and requires no physical games controller …
Read More »Nokia and Sony Ericsson report grim results
Two of the biggest mobile phone firms foolish enough not to have invented the iPhone have delivered very bad news this morning, with both Nokia and Sony Ericsson suffering declines in sales and revenues. Nokia has posted revenues of €9.9 billion for Q2’09, down 25 per cent year-on-year, but up …
Read More »Microsoft shops taking on Apple
The expected rollout of Microsoft’s chains of retail stores later this year could see the software giant deliberately pitching some of its outlets right next to existing Apple stores, one MS exec has claimed. TechRadar quotes COO Kevin Turner as saying of the shops: We’re going to have some retail …
Read More »PSEye facial recognition software coming
Some of the advantages boasted by Microsoft’s Natal controller are already in the PSEye, Sony said today. The firm has developed new facial recognition software for the PSEye camera which has been put together after many experiments by both the excellent SCEE R&D team and work with other developers. Click …
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