Publishing

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 …

Gree and Dena to spearhead new self-regulation policy

Long-delayed certification measures set to launch in July, UKIE claims

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:

Company to offer new roles to some staff made redundant; Others to go

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. …

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 …

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 …

Hype surrounding 505 Games’ big summer shooter release Sniper Elite V2?is growing fast. The publisher has already reported strong demo download numbers and positive feedback from both press and consumers for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC game which arrives on May 4th. It’s a next-gen reboot of the 2005 …

Restricting sales of second-hand games 'would be awesome from a business perspective'