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SCEA CEO blasts PSPgo info leaks months before the handheld was oficially announced
Read More »Hurry! Develop Awards earlybird offer ends soon
Meanwhile Bethesda, Crytek and Babel sign to sponsor July 15th event in Brighton
Read More »Small DICE team making Mirrors Edge 2
Electronic Arts has confirmed that a ‘small team’ at Swedish outfit DICE is working on a sequel to Mirror’s Edge. EA’s euro VP Patrick Soderlund told news site VideoGamer at E3 that we have a small team on it and I’m excited about what we do.” He didn’t offer any …
Read More »Assassins Creed 2 dated in UK
As soon as the US release date of November 17th was announced at E3 earlier this month a November 20th arrival in the UK and Europe was as good as certain – and now Ubisoft has confirmed the presumption. The first game, released back in 2007, was a commercial hit …
Read More »Gamescom ties MCV and Casualgaming.biz
New trade and consumer show Gamescom has appointed B2B leaders MCV and CasualGaming.biz as media partners. The event takes place in Cologne, starting with a trade-only day on Wednesday August 19th. An extra high circulation edition of MCV will be distributed in the Business Centre throughout the entire show, which …
Read More »Will 360 Games on Demand worry retail?
Microsoft insists that its new Xbox 360 Games on Demand service won’t dampen retail sales. But at E3, where the new service was unveiled, the firm admitted it hadn’t yet decided how long – if at all – a wait there will be between a digital release and its boxed …
Read More »â??Smallâ?? DICE team developing Mirrorâ??s Edge 2
EA confirms Swedish dev DICE is working on the sequel, implies a possible departure from the original
Read More »Pinnacle team returns with P2
The demise of Pinnacle Software hasn’t slowed some of its former senior management – two of its staff have already formed a new publishing outfit. P2 Games is formed by Peter Sleeman and Gerry Whiteside and will focus on DS, Wii, PC and digital download games. Previously the two had …
Read More »E3 and the winner is…
Microsoft relied on wow factor to open the show. Nothing wrong with that; celebrity appearances, the long-expected reveal of a new peripheral and fanboy-pleaser Kojima are not to be sniffed at. However, already-established Rock Band aside, each of them (especially Natal, hidden behind closed doors) lacked any tangible product for …
Read More »Halo 3: ODST now full-priced title
Consumers can expect to pay full-whack for Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3: ODST upon its release in September following Microsoft’s decision to back-track on its initial statement claiming that the game would be a budget standalone expansion release. At the time of those statements, the overall scope of Halo 3: ODST …
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