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DISCLAIMER: HMV hasn’t revealed a new twin-stick 3DS XL. Although shoppers on one UK High Street today may well be thinking otherwise after what appears to be a marketing error from the entertainment giant. As spotted by a Nintendo Gamer reader, POS for at least one HMV outlets is carrying …

E-Xpress Interactive and Namco Bandai today revealed the preorder promotions for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in India. At E3, Namco had announced its collaboration with Snoop Dogg for the upcoming fighting game, and aside from the rapper contributing a song to the game’s soundtrack, all those who preorder Tekken Tag …

Spicy Horse joins the free-to-play exodus

Browser-based F2P game garners more than 18,000 new registrations a day

Microsoft’s $99 subscription Xbox 360 trial could be coming to the UK and Europe. The offer was rolled out to select American retailers last month. It sees gamers pay just $99 up front for an Xbox 360 console on the condition that the sign up to a two-year Xbox Live …

The Halo 4 Limited Edition Xbox 360 console bundle, which was revealed by 343 Industries at San Diego Comic-Con, will be available in India, Microsoft India has confirmed. The Indian price for the Halo 4 bundle, however, is yet to be decided. The bundle will retail for $399.99 in the …

'Rooting the device won't give you any more access to the software', claims Julie Uhrman

Valve’s business management director has claimed that Steam’s frequent price promotions do not have a negative effect on the sale of full price software. If that’s what we thought was happening, or that’s what we saw happening, we wouldn’t do it,” Jason Holtman told PC Gamer. Actually, all the data …

Analyst says Activision forced creation of Pro Controller

Left 4 dead 2 to be first game rolled out on open operating system