Retail

Ubisoft has announced that a free copy of 2007 hit Assassin’s Creed will be included with the PS3 version of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. It’s a limited time promotion, however, with the publisher saying that only day one copies” of the game will include the extra. The offer applies to PS3 …

Yes, that’s right. A copy of Gears of War 3 can be yours. For free. Tomorrow. At Gamestation’s Birmingham New Street store. Is there a catch? No, not really. Well, we say not really. There is one. A tiny one. You have to be one of the first ten customers …

Having managed just five issues, Future has called time on its officially licensed World of Warcraft magazine. Subscribers are free to either claim a refund for the issues that will now never be published or instead claim a voucher entitling them to six in-game World of Warcraft pets. Current Activision …

UK supermarket chain Morrisons has hit the magic 25 price point for tomorrow’s big global release Gears of War 3. Supermarket promotions are no rarity on big titles, but prices can vary – and 25 is typically the cheapest you’ll find on any triple-A big release on day one. But …

It’s arguably the biggest release of the year to date and retail is gearing up for a bloody fight to win the biggest market share possible on Microsoft’s Gears of War 3. HMV is the first retailer to show its hand. It will sell the game for just 1.99 to …

HMV and GAME hope to get a slice of Olympic gold as they open new-look stores in Westfield’s 1.45bn Stratford shopping complex. Westfield says the centre – which opened at the Olympic village this week – has a catchment area of 4.1m residents, with a potential spend of 3.24bn between …

UK retailer GAME has revealed exactly what it has planned for its special Gears of War 3 midnight opening event at its London Oxford Street store next Monday night. Carlos Ferro, war veteran and the voice of Dom Santiago, will be in attendance to meet fans of the game. Limited …

The UK release of Deep Silver’s Catherine has been pushed back to Q1 next year, MCV can reveal. The bizarre action puzzle adventure game for Xbox 360 and PS3 was previously scheduled to arrive in Europe later this year. It is already out in Japan and the US. In July, …

Gears of War 3 is released worldwide next Tuesday and Microsoft has announced that over 20,000 stores across the globe will open their doors at midnight. In the UK 479 GAME and Gamestation stores will open at 00:01 on Tuesday September 20th, with GAME’s flagship London Oxford Street store hosting …

A new study into scary console claims has named EA’s Dead Space 2 as the scariest game on Xbox 360. The Vertical Slice study, published on Gamasutra, also drew a number of other conclusions about the nature of scary games and the most effective means of frightening players. For instance, …