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Reports suggest that a new Uncharted game is in development for the PSP2. US games publication Game Informer claims it has been told that a spin-off of the popular PS3 adventure series is due for release on Sony’s next handheld by Christmas 2011, according to CVG. The developers we talked …
Read More »First Black Ops DLC announced
Activision has announced the first details of its debut DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Called First Strike, the download will include four new multiplayer maps and a new level for the zombie mode. Two of the new maps will be based on the game’s single player – Hong …
Read More »Bulletstorm includes Gears of War 3 beta
EA is offering players who buy the Bulletstorm Epic Edition early access to Gears of War 3. Developer Epic Games has teamed up with Bulletstorm publisher EA and Gears of War 3 publisher Microsoft to offer the cross-game incentive. The Xbox 360 Bulletstorm special edition – on sale February 25th …
Read More »EA undercuts indies in App Store discount spree
Publisher dominates unit sales chart as games go £0.99
Read More »Blizzard’s Titan is ‘next-gen MMO’
Titan is not just the name of Blizzard’s latest mystery title – it’s also the name of what the developer has tantalisingly called a "next-gen MMO". "The media is not supposed to know anything about that. It’s our next-gen MMO project," Blizzard’s senior VP Frank Pearce told Destructoid. "We’ve only …
Read More »Microsoftâ??s Bing turns games platform
Social game Happy Island to be directly playable in search engine
Read More »Mass Effect 2 to use ME3 engine on PS3
Developer BioWare has confirmed that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 will use the engine built for the upcoming Mass Effect 3. "One of the first things you’re going to see is improved graphics," producer Jesse Houston said on the BioWare podcast, as reported by 1UP. "We actually created …
Read More »Riccitiello: $99 Wii would explode Nintendos sales
John Riccitiello has come up with a solution to Nintendo’s falling profits: cut the price of the Wii to just $99. The Electronic Arts CEO believes that such a price point would help the platform holder’s sales explode” at retail, according to Industry Gamers. He also claims this would keep …
Read More »Online Black Ops woes – Treyarch speaks
PS3 owners still experiencing problems with the online component of Call of Duty: Black Ops have been told to hold tight as Treyarch looks to release another patch that it hopes will eradicate the issues. On Wednesday the developer released an update designed to ease the problems some are having …
Read More »Sony talks future handheld innovation
Though the words ‘PSP’ and ‘two’ are yet to emerge from the lips of Sony, SCEE president Andrew House has told MCV of his company’s future plans for innovation in the handheld space. We demonstrated with PS2 that with the right value proposition, the right long-term attention and the right …
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