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Tom Crago, the president of the Game Developers Association of Australia, has labelled the country’s video games classification system as ridiculous and antiquated” following the decision to ban Piranha Bytes’ Risen owing to references to sex and drugs. Risen was refused a certificate as its adult content was deemed unsuitable …
Read More »Football Manager 2010 dated
Sports Interactive’s Football Manager 2010 will hit PC and Mac on October 30th, alongside Football Manager Handheld 2010 on PSP. Last year’s entry in the series spent 22 weeks at the top of the ChartTrack PC charts and sold well over 1 million copies, and for this year’s games Sports …
Read More »EA on the hunt for smaller acquisitions
Publisher loses interest in high-profile, blockbuster buyouts
Read More »Mad Catz to release Modern Warfare 2 accessories
Mad Catz has announced it will be releasing a range of accessories based on Activision Blizzard’s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Under a new agreement with Activision, the company will release officially branded controllers and other peripherals on all formats alongside the game when it releases in November. We …
Read More »Blaze unveils retro handheld
Retro gaming and accessory specialist Blaze has unveiled its new handheld gaming system, named the Dingoo A320. The console offers emulation of a number of retro systems, and doubles up as an MP3 player, movie viewer and FM radio. Complete with a 16 million colour 2.8" LCD screen, a 4GB …
Read More »Sony headhunting talent at â??Get in the Game’
Second annual game-commissioning event set for September
Read More »Carmack: PS4 will be first to market
John Carmack, technical director at id Software, has predicted that Sony will be the first platform holder to make a move into the next generation of gaming hardware – though he doesn’t expect any new machines to be announced in the near future. The whole jockeying for who’s going to …
Read More »Next Mortal Kombat to focus online
A job listing has revealed that Warner Bros. is planning to dominate online play with its first Mortal Kombat game. As spotted by fansite TRMK, the listing states the new recruit must help the firm ‘push the boundaries’ of online interaction, and make Mortal Kombat the ‘gold standard for network …
Read More »US: Amazon ups pre-owned offer
The North American arm of Amazon has increased the momentum behind its controversial trade-in strategy by offering an extra cash incentive to those willing to send their old games to the online retailer. Joystiq reports that Amazon will until the end of August offer an additional $30 credit to punters …
Read More »Warner Bros taking Mortal Kombat online
Company seeks out network play specialist for former Midway franchise
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