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EA is running a special promotion for Origin users in India, whereby preordering one of its upcoming games entitles you to purchase a second game for just Rs 100. The offer is valid on all preorders, but the second game priced at Rs 100 must be from a limited selection, …

Sony UK has been overwhelmed by the retail feedback to Wonderbook. Amazon told MCV that the interactive book service – which will launch with Harry Potter spin-off Book of Spells – is ‘terrific’. SCE UK’s boss Fergal Gara said that Wonderbook is the big PS3 launch of Christmas, and will …

PS Vita got short shrift during Sony’s E3 presentation, but don’t mistake that for a lack of energy behind the new handheld. According to Sony, the firm focused on just three big brands heading to Vita – Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty and YouTube – to prove the device’s star …

The NASSCOM Gaming Forum is heading to Hyderabad on 7th July for its second developers’ meet. On the agenda is a talk on publishing games on Steam by Vinnie Reddy, CEO of BlueGiant Interactive. The Hyderabad-based studio is currently working on its new PC strategy title – Tryst, and self-published …

Another supposed leak from Microsoft suggests that an Xbox tablet, called ‘Xbox Surface’, is very much in the works. A detailed 56-page document claiming to detail the next generation of Xbox (codenamed Xbox 720) was revealed to the world yesterday. This was shortly followed by claims of a new Microsoft …

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A year after EA first unleashed its digital download service Origin, the company’s senior VP of global e-commerce David DeMartini has christened its first 12 months as a huge success”. When you consider where we started from, which we kind of say was a standing start, we’ve got 12m downloads …

GamesWISE to offer business advice to investors and developers

Ian Shepherd has said that UK retailers are routinely failing to correctly manage their customers. I’ll go out on a limb and assert that there is no retailer in the UK properly managing its customer base, including the ones I’ve worked in,” he wrote on his blog Moving Tribes. That’s …

Television network CBS acquires rights to new series