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Read More »Record breaking Black Ops 2 makes $500m in 24 hours
Latest Call of Duty beats Modern Warfare 3 first day sales by $100 million
Read More »EA wins LGBT equality award
The Human Rights Campaign has awarded publisher EA a 100 per cent rating in its LGBT workplace equality report. To receive the award businesses must demonstrate policies, benefits and practices that are best-in-class demonstrations of corporate commitments to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees”. Only companies that score 100 per …
Read More »PS3 hits 70m worldwide
70m PlayStation 3 consoles have been shipped worldwide, says Sony. And as revealed by MCV last month, 5m has been sold in the UK. The platform hit the milestone as of November 4th, while as of November 11th over 15m units of Sony’s PlayStation Move accessory had also been sold …
Read More »Wargaming sets down roots in Southeast Asia
Players of World of Tanks in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines will soon be finding that their gaming experience has become somewhat smoother. Wargaming has announced the establishment of a direct presence in the region, in which it released World of Tanks back in May. As well as a dedicated …
Read More »Punch Quest goes paid as free-to-play model fails
Popular title struggles to break past $10,000 in revenue despite more than 600,000 downloads
Read More »Batman’s Tom ‘Bane’ Hardy to star in Splinter Cell movie
New details have emerged about a big screen adaptation of Ubisoft stealth ’em up, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Variety reports that Dark Knight Rises and Inception star Tom Hardy (that’s right, Bane) will play the series’ protagonist Sam Fisher. Meanwhile the script will be written by Eric Warren Singer, who …
Read More »Don’t worry, that’s not a demo disc in your copy of LEGO Lord of the Rings
Warner has confirmed that an error has led to a small number” of Xbox 360 copies of LEGO Lord of the Rings being labelled as demos. Reports spread around the internet this morning as consumers claimed that had found a demo and not the full game in the box. Fortunately …
Read More »Reports emerge of Origin account hijacks
A number of EA Origin users have reportedly had their accounts compromised. One Eurogamer writer claims to have received an email from EA saying that his account’s password or email address or both have successfully been changed – a request that was never made. There are also reports that consumers …
Read More »Knight and Bradshaw join Hayes at Serious Games
Serious Games International has bolstered its games industry experience with the appointment of several senior industry figures. Mark Stanger, Gary Knight, Paul Ranson, Felix Bradshaw and Mark Cottam join the organisations which was set up to combine game development talent with academic research in the arena of serious games, and …
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