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A Union Jack style Xbox 360 S Kinect bundle with two games has appeared on Amazon.co.uk. UPDATE: The listing has now been removed. The Amazon product page described the bundle as the Xbox 360 S 4GB Celebration Pack, which is priced at 249.99 and includes the Kinect motion accessory. The …
Read More »THQ sells budget division ValuSoft
Budget software company Cosmi has acquired THQ’s value-centric publishing and distribution division ValuSoft. The move ties in with THQ’s widely-publicised new strategy of dropping all but its strongest and most important IP and operations, though the sale of assets is unlikely to quieten observers keen to predict the demise of …
Read More »HMV hosting official Diablo III launch event
Blizzard has confirmed that HMV’s London Oxford Street store will host the official UK launch event for upcoming PC title Diablo III. The fun will kick off at 10:00pm on May 14th with the game going on sale at 11:00pm. There will be a number of giveaways and competitions and …
Read More »‘Spending limit on Japan teen in-app purchases’
Gree and Dena to spearhead new self-regulation policy
Read More »PEGI games age ratings ‘months away’
Long-delayed certification measures set to launch in July, UKIE claims
Read More »VIDEO: Live action Metal Gear Rising short
Konami has released a live-action teaser video for Metal Gear Rising. Series’ favourites such as Solid Snake or Raiden are now-where to be seen. Instead, we see a soldier being tortured in some kind of military lab. The video closes by promising more details on April 30th. Here’s the video:
Read More »EA Montreal in studio restructure
Company to offer new roles to some staff made redundant; Others to go
Read More »‘Publishers don’t want 50 digital retailers’
75 per cent of PC download stores won’t make enough money to justify support from publishers, Gamefly says. The US retail rental firm, which acquired Direct2Drive 12 months ago, opened its .co.uk site earlier this year. And co-founder Sean Spector believes the rush to open rivals to Steam has ended. …
Read More »Big TV push for Game of Thrones game
The Game of Thrones console and PC spin-off will be backed by ‘high-profile’ TV advertisements. And rightly so, because the game is the adaptation of a popular Sky Atlantic show. The action RPG – published by Focus Home Interactive and distributed to retail by Koch Media this June – will …
Read More »‘Call of Duty Elite still has to prove itself’
Call of Duty Elite still needs to win over the customers it ‘pissed off’ last November, Activision says. The online service for the hit FPS IP was bombarded with traffic when it went live alongside Modern Warfare 3 last year, and subsequently failed to work. It took almost a month …
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