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Game4u is going all out with its preorder campaign for God of War: Ascension, offering five preorder bonuses if you get in early enough. Everyone who preorder Kratos’ latest rage-filled adventure from the retailer will receive the Mythological Heroes DLC and an Omega Neckchain, which is exclusive to Game4u. Over …

Publisher Konami has seen a 48 per cent drop in net income for the nine months ending December 31st. The final figure came in at 8.82bn, down from 17bn the year before. Revenue fell 18 per cent to 160.1bn. The company’s Digital Entertainment division accounted for roughly half of its …

Namco Bandai’s Ni No Kuni wasn’t just last week’s top retail game, it was also the top seller on PSN. The stylish RPG beat GTA: Vice City (No.2) and Hitman HD Trilogy (No.3) in MCV’s weekly European PSN Top Ten. The chart includes sales for the week ending February 1st. …

Employees went unpaid for six months during development of critically acclaimed PSN title

Publisher Deep Silver has teamed up with a custom vehicle specialist to build a real-life zombie killing pickup truck. It’s based on a Ford Ranger pickup and sports armoured windows, spiked wheels, a front barricade and even a rear-mounted mini-gun. The machine will be appearing at a number of events …

Minecraft is still the top selling Xbox Live Arcade game in the UK. The building title has been a massive success on Microsoft’s platform. This is only the second official UK XBLA Top Ten – which is published in MCV every week – but Minecraft has been comfortably the top …

'In every single console transition we've seen an increase in expenditure'

The PlayStation Vita remains a viable platform for publishers, Ubisoft has argued. Sony lowered its sales expectation for the machine for the fourth time earlier this week, leading many to write it off as a commercial disaster. But Ubisoft says that there is money to be made with the right …

The Mass Effect game currently in development will not star Commander Shepard and will likely not be a prequel or a sequel to the existing trilogy. "To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here," …

Outspoken CEO Bobby Kotick has admitted that his company Activision Blizzard had expected Wii U do fare better than it has for in its short life in the market. "We were somewhat disappointed with the launch of the Wii U,” he told investors when speaking about Nintendo’s machine and what …