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Nintendo has made good on its promise to broaden its digital software offer by making Namco Bandai’s Tank! Tank! Tank! Free to play. The game has failed to perform commercially, not least because of the critical mauling that saw it win a Metacritic average of just 45 per cent. Gamers …

Specialist retailer Game4u will hold a midnight launch for Crysis 3 at stores in Mumbai and Gurgaon. The game is scheduled for release on 22nd February – that’s just ten days away – and Game4u will open its doors 30 minutes before midnight. The midnight launch will be conducted at …

Games must also be installed on hard drive, claims Durango ebay seller SuperDaE

Warren Mills will leave Google for a role at mobile commerce firm Weve at the end of the month. Mills was Google’s industry manager for entertainment. At Weve, which is a joint venture between mobile operators EE, Vodafone and O2, he will assume the role of entertainment partnerships manager and …

Wildman crowdfunding campaign stopped with only 50 per cent of target goal achieved

Members of the GMB union will tomorrow (Feb 13th) stage a number of demonstrations across nine of Amazon’s UK depots. Retail Week reports that the dispute concerns staff wages, which are 6.20 an hour – one penny above the UK minimum wage. Disquiet about the pay rates has intensified since …

Xbox Live grows to 46 million subscribers as users clock up 18 billion hours of entertainment in 2012

Microsoft has proudly announced that the Xbox 360 has now sold 76m units worldwide. Amazingly, the machine has been the best selling console for 24 consecutive months in North America, fending off new hardware launches such as 3DS, Vita and Wii U in the process. On top of the console …

New company to focus on creating interactive content and live event programming

Swedish developer SimBin, best known for the GTR games, has released a new free-to-play game titled RaceRoom Racing Experience. Pegged as being more than a game”, the RaceRoom experience is spread across three destinations – a game, a content store, and a motorsports portal. SimBin’s past games have been known …