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Yves Guillemot has admitted that he would have preferred Nintendo to launch with a lower price for the Wii U. The console arrives in North America this weekend and then in the UK on November 30th. Typical prices as of right now start at around 250 for the (hard to …

New team and new engine behind forthcoming installment of sci-fi epic

Sister title, Mobile Entertainment, is holding its seventh annual ME Awards ceremony in little over a fortnight, recognising the achievements of those working in the mobile content industry. Gaming, of course, is a huge part of the mobile space and EA Mobile, Gameloft, Rovio are among Best Games Publisher nominees, …

Call of Duty: Black Ops II has been released. You might have noticed. Unusually last night’s midnight launches took place before the review embargo was lifted, leaving thousand waiting until this morning to discover whether the game now sitting in their consoles is any good. Fear not. It sounds fantastic. …

Playmob's Jude Ower on getting help from a business support programme

Former games journalist Ashley Day has switched career paths to take a new PR role at Nintendo. Day joined the platform holder yesterday as junior PR manager, where he reports to Nintendo UK’s head of communications Jo Bartlett. He will work alongside fellow junior PR manager Emily Woolliscroft. He has …

Call of Duty: Black Ops II is here at last, and thousand of store workers and gamers took to the streets last night to welcome it. The official launch took place at HMV’s Oxford Street store and was attended by a number of celebrities. Blockbuster also saw a fantastic turnout …

Valve’s Gabe Newell has put a confirmation sticker on the Source 2 engine reports that have cropped up over the past few months. Joystiq reports that the company’s boss was ‘confronted’ on his birthday from fans of 4chan’s /v/board – confirming some "We’ve been working on new engine stuff for …

Mojang’s indie hit Minecraft has surpassed 8m units sold on PC. "The PC version of Minecraft just passed 8 million sales!" The game’s creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson announced on twitter. "My face is making grinning sounds, so I assume it’s grinning!” It took less than three months for the game …

Halo 4 has set a launch day record across all entertainment mediums. Microsoft has announced the latest in the sci-fi shooter has made $220m worldwide in its first 24 hours of availability. The figure makes the title the biggest entertainment launch of the year thus far – outperforming both 2012’s …