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An unsurprisingly anonymous member of hacker community Anonymous has stated that the collective has stopped its attack on Sony. Amazingly, the reason for the decision was what is described as the "selfish" reaction to the attacks on PSN. "We are no longer attacking Sony, there is nothing more to gained …
Read More »Half a million visit Sony at E3
Over 500,000 users visited the virtual Sony E3 booth through online PS3 hub PlayStation Home. In comparison, 46,800 people attended the event in person – a tenth of those who visited online – reports Venture Beat. PlayStation Home users were able to watch videos of the latest games on show …
Read More »EA lays blame on Valve for Crysis 2’s Steam ban
Publishing giant suggests Steam business terms are draconian
Read More »Aussie Minister wants We Dare review
Months after the game originally hit the headlines, Ubisoft’s We Dare has once again ignited the spark of controversy. The game went unnoticed for months earlier this year until Ubisoft went live with what some – although certainly not MCV – felt to be controversial trailer for the Wii title. …
Read More »2K ditches US PR firm Redner
Publisher 2K Games has confirmed that it has ditched US PR firm The Redner Group. Redner hit the headlines yesterday after publicly threatening to blacklist – as in, stop sending out review code for upcoming games – any media that it felt was too harsh on the critically slammed Duke …
Read More »EA: Valve pulled Crysis 2
Publisher EA has denied that it took the decision to remove Crysis 2 from Valve’s download service Steam. Yesterday it was reported that EA had taken the game off Valve’s portal and instead put it on its own Origin download service, complete with the slogan "Buy Now – Only on …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Nordic Games
Why has Nordic Games chosen to focus on Wii?We chose Wii because there was clearly a gap for its very own SingStar, and that’s what we’ve provided. Another consideration was the cost to produce a genuinely good quality game using only start-up money. Two years ago that wasn’t possible for …
Read More »Iwata: I wasn’t criticising mobile devs at GDC
Nintendo president gives post-mortem on his significant address to the industry
Read More »Wii U ‘running custom Radeon R770 GPU’
Unconfirmed reports claim new system will support Direct X 10
Read More »Praise heaped on Child of Eden
With a current 85 per cent Metacritic average under its belt, Ubisoft’s Child of Eden has got off to a strong start ahead of its UK release this Friday (June 17th). "If you played Rez though and came out the other side with a massive smile that lasted for days, …
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