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The industry was rocked by heavy discounting this week, as High Street giants GAME and Gamestation joined independent retailers in buying extra stock from supermarkets. The latest round of price slashing kicked off at Sainsbury’s over the weekend, with the retailer cutting 30 off the price of Xbox 360 and …
Read More »Sports Interactive signs with Steam
Sega's Football Manager studio to use Steamworks Services for retail and download games
Read More »Tomy turns publisher
Toy giant Tomy Corporation is to publish its own video games in North America and Europe this month. Visit MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz for the full story.
Read More »PSP strengthens digital disitribution ties
Japan to see simultaneous UMD and PlayStation Store releases of new handheld titles
Read More »‘iTunes can dominate games’
SPECIAL REPORT: Apple tells Develop that its digitial download service can boost gaming
Read More »Halo Wars will revolutionise RTS genre, says Microsoft
As the world goes ga-ga over the news of Halo 3: Recon , Microsoft’s UK marketing boss has told MCV that strategy spin-off Halo Wars will revolutionise” the RTS genre. Head of gaming and entertainment at Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division Stephen McGill told MCV: Any release in the Halo …
Read More »TGS: All PSP games to be downloadable
Sony has confirmed that all of its future UMD PSP titles will be released simultaneously for download on the upcoming PSP Store – which, incidentally, has been given a Japanese launch date of October 15th. CVG reports that SCEJ’s Destroy All Heroes 2 will be the first title to be …
Read More »TGS: Now Tekken 6 makes move to Xbox 360
As part of its conference at the Tokyo Games Show, Microsoft has confirmed that Namco Bandai’s Tekken 6 will be released simultaneously on both Xbox 360 and PS3 in autumn 2009. Tekken is a long-standing PlayStation exclusive, having made its name on Sony’s first machine. However, following Square Enix’s decision …
Read More »Under-fire EUK comes out fighting
EUK has rubbished any suggestion that a troubled relationship with publishers could derail its business – insisting that 95 per cent of suppliers” have pledged their full support to the firm. Speaking exclusively to MCV in a candid interview, EUK managing director Steve Lewis admitted that credit insurers refusing cover …
Read More »Xbox 360 Blu-ray rumours return
It’s been claimed , and denied , repeatedly since the demise of HD-DVD , but now new talk of a possible Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360 has emerged. Xbit Laboratories claims that the Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology Corp has already entered into a contract to build external Blu-ray drives for Xbox …
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