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Following the news that the recently released North American PSP version of Manhunt 2 has been hacked to enable access to some of the violent content that had been removed from the game, US ratings board the ESRB has defended its decision to grant the game a Mature rating. "Our …
Read More »Games Marketing Forum roster expands
Tandem Events, organiser of the upcoming Games Marketing Forum, has announced that Bath Spa University’s Dr James Newman will be the keynote speaker at the event that is to take place at London’s Cumberland Hotel on Thursday November 22nd. His keynote speech will be entitled ‘Playing with video games – …
Read More »N-Gage service delayed
Nokia says testing has added "a couple of weeks" to deployment
Read More »Revamped N-Gage suffers delay
Next-Gen reports that global phone giant Nokia has delayed the launch of its new N-Gage mobile games service from this month until later in the year. Rather than focusing on a dedicated gaming handset, as was the case with the first N-Gage, this time round N-Gage will represent a dedicated …
Read More »Xboxs Grange heads to Activision
It has been confirmed to MCV that the current UK head of Microsoft Xbox PR Nick Grange is to move to publisher Activision to assume the role of European PR director on November 29th. Grange has been with the Xbox platform holder for five years, overseeing the successful launch of …
Read More »PS3 narrowing Japanese sales gap
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has stated that whilst the Wii outsold PS3 by two-to-one throughout October in Japan, Sony’s machine has narrowed the gap enjoyed by its rival for the fourth month in succession, Reuters reports. The Wii sold 110,415 units throughout the month, with PS3 selling 47,183. It’s a stark …
Read More »Konami patches PC PES 2008
It shot straight to number one in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, but online lag problems have dogged Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 – now the publisher has released a patch to address to address the problems in the PC version of the title. The patch not …
Read More »Sega looks to expand UK ops
Sega – Senior Brand Manager – Two positions available You think you know Sega? Did you know that Sega is the home of the Total War and Aliens franchises? The home of games based on Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Golden Compass and new games such as Viking: Battle …
Read More »Google takes another step into games
Google is to host a handful of Oberon Media’s casual games on its Orkut service – and developers are being encouraged to create even more for the portal. Oberon has created a toolset that allows devs to create games for social networking sites that support Google’s OpenSocial platform, including MySpace, …
Read More »Nintendo keen to help out third-party developers
Wants to â??maintain level of quality,â?? says marketing man Hatano
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