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He’s been on the bandwagon for some time now, and once again analyst Michael Pachter has declared his belief that Activision will introduce a premium paid-for element for Call of Duty online. The analyst now claims that Activision decided not to unveil the service prior to the release of the …

Consumers who rush out tomorrow to be among the first to get their hands on the long-awaited PS3 racer Gran Turismo 5 tomorrow will need to download a hefty update right away if they wish to take the game online. Confirmation of the 133MB patch comes from Eurogamer. The download …

The on-off saga of a potential movie based on the Halo franchise has been reignited once again with a very firm statement from Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor: There will be a Halo movie”. O’Connor was formerly the content manager and front-facing voice of Halo developers Bungie, though now works directly for …

Nanea Reeves takes on executive role at cloud-gaming firm

Industry execs called it the ‘digital gold-rush’. It was a period when every publisher, developer and retailer – big and small – hired their own prospectors to help them break into the exciting new digital marketplace. But when they finally got there they found that most of the gold had …

Platform holder Microsoft has outlined its reasoning behind its blanket ban on the use of the swastika in the multiplayer mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops. The online element of the game allows users to personalise their own badges. So detailed are the tools that the possibilities are endless. …

IGA Worldwide has announced that Ed Bartlett has left the company. He leaves his position as vice president for Europe at the in-game advertising firm to pursue other interests. During his time at IGA, he secured deals with leading publishers such as EA, Valve, Codemasters, Sega and Atari, and helped …

Ruffian Games' Billy Thomson looks at cloud gaming and the future

Less than two years after it was released on Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced that it is to close many of its dedicated support features for strategy title Halo Wars. Specifically, the next title update for the game will implement measures designed to accommodate the closure of the HaloWars.com website. …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is today celebrating its second week at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it successfully fends off the advances of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which claim second and third place …