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National Assembly backs plans to lower minimum budget to €100,000 and make eligible 18-rated games

The public’s increasing propensity to leave their festive shopping late has sent retail into a pre-Christmas sale panic. That’s according to PricewaterhouseCoopers which, according to The Telegraph, says that six in ten High Street stores have already kicked off their post-Christmas sales. On average, these stores have cut a whopping …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Ghosts has continued its recent dominance of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. The shooter has retained its grip on the top spot for three successive weeks now, making it five No.1’s in total for the shooter. That’s despite a week-on-week sales decline of …

Revamped game will benefit from new consoles, says Laurent Detoc

Capcom has confirmed that it is pulling two of its digital fighting games from PlayStation network and Xbox Live. Both Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 are to be pulled from sale in the near future. DLC for both games will cease to be available in …

It’s not often that all work on a game is binned and the project is started over, but that’s exactly what happened with Rainbow Six: Patriots. The game was first announced in 2011 We had a core team. They had a good vision. They got started, and then the game …

Retailer Game4u kicked off its end-of-year sale over the weekend. The sale features discounts on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 games and will last almost half a month, ending on 1st January. New games will be added to sale each day and will also include used games (what Game4u calls …