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Read More »GameStop bags exclusive special edition of DmC: Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry fans will have to head to GameStop if they want to get their hands on the Son of Sparda Edition of the upcoming reboot. Under a new deal between GameStop and Capcom, the SKU will only be available through GameStop, EB Games or Micromania in Europe and …
Read More »Toy sales expected to fall 1.8% in 2013 while games tumble 28.3% in 2012. Why?
Yes, we all know that retail is a tough environment at the moment. But video games are amongst the worst performers of 2012. Sister site Toy News reports that IBISWorld data predicts that the UK toy market will likely decline by just 1.8 per cent throughout 2013. The 2012 games …
Read More »Resident Evil 6 PC dated for March, console update arrives next month
Capcom has revealed when PC gamers will get a crack at Resident Evil 6, as well as when the next free title update will land for consoles. RE6 will be available for Windows, as well as release through Steam, on March 22nd of next year. The game launched in early …
Read More »Square Enix LA hit with layoffs
Square Enix has suffered an unspecified number of layoffs at its Los Angeles offices. Rumour of the layoffs was leaked over the past weekend, and soon after Square Enix public relations director Riley Brennan confirmed the news to Massively. Though Brennan declined to say how many employees were let go, …
Read More »Resident Evil 6 coming to PC in March
Resident Evil 6 is set to arrive on PCs on 22nd March, Capcom has announced. While the PC version will be available in Europe (and by extension, India) on disc and digitally, interestingly, the US will only see a digital release. A few days ago, Capcom announced a near-simultaneous PC …
Read More »EA drops out of NASDAQ-100
Publisher pays the price after a 40 per cent value drop as of June 2012
Read More »Redundancies hit Frontier Developments
14 staff have lost their jobs at David Braben’s Frontier Developments. Eurogamer reports that the studio, which until the cuts employed 233 people, told those affected of the losses at 6pm on Friday December 14th, just 11 days before Christmas. "Frontier regretfully has given a total of 14 people (from …
Read More »THQ considering Linux for upcoming releases
Publisher evaluating costs and benefits of porting games to OS
Read More »EA suffers NASDAQ-100 index delisting
NASDAQ has as part of its annual NASDAQ-100 Index re-ranking dropped EA from its list. Also booted are streaming video provider Netflix and Blackberry creators RIM. Facebook and Western Digital are amongst those promoted to the index. As of June 2012 EA had suffered a 40 per cent share value …
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