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Social game Happy Island to be directly playable in search engine

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 …

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 …

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 …

New speakers announced for the Netherlands event

Time circuits on. The first episode of Telltale Games’ Back To the Future: The Game will finally arrive next week. Entitled It’s About Time, the game will be available to download on PC from December 22nd. Set six months after the events of Back To The Future: Part III, it …

Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski has revealed that the expected Gears of War 3 announcement at this year’s Spike VGA Awards was because the timing wasn’t right”. A myriad of big name games were announced and showcased at this year’s awards, but Microsoft’s highly-anticipated third-person shooter was noticeably absent – despite …

Gameloft’s Modern Combat series will make its console debut in January with a downloadable PlayStation Move title The company has announced Modern Combat: Domination will be released through PSN next month. The game will be a multiplayer shooter and will be compatible with Sony’s new motion controller, according to Kotaku. …

Tech, team and IP sharing across studios as publisher aims to build global blockbusters

Some PS3 owners are reportedly still experiencing problems with the online component of Call of Duty: Black Ops despite the release of a patch that was supposed to address the concerns. Complaints include the inability to connect to any online games and being frequently kicked from games once finally online. …