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Microsoft may have been silent since E3, but some of Halo 4’s secrets will be revelaed later this month. Toy specialists Re:creation will be using the 2012 Toy Fair to show off its new range of game-licensed products, including figures based on the hotly anticipated shooter. Central to the line-up …

Guerrilla Games’ 2004 PS2 shooter Killzone is to receive a release on PSN. Game Informer reports that it won’t be a full HD remake, but instead an emulated title offered as part of the existing PS2 library. It has been given a price of $9.99 in the US. The game …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 may have shattered records left, right and centre, but it fell far short of its predecessor in the UK. As revealed by MCV this morning, ERA’s 2011 UK Entertainment charts reveals that Modern Warfare 3 sold 2,814,609 copies in the UK between its …

'No substantial evidence' of health and safety laws breach

Though the PlayStation Vita is still suffering from low sales in Japan, Sony has been encouraged by the improved fortunes of the 3DS. That’s according to SCEE president and CEO Jim Ryan, who told MCV that Nintendo’s success bodes well for the portable market. One of the encouraging things about …

Ubisoft Reflections man to help students get their games on the App Store

PR manager Neil Ashurst has departed GAME Group this week after three and a half years at the firm. He will be joining PR agency Romley Davies, where he will head up the company’s newly-signed Blockbuster account. He will support the rental chain’s growing games offering, as well as its …

Sony’s new handheld has maintained a steady level of sales in its fourth week on the market, but Nintendo has widened the gap. Vita sold 42,915 units in the week ending January 8th, a slight improvements on the 42,468 units from the previous week. Sony claims 500,000 units have been …

The new boss of SCE UK has told MCV that the company should have sold more PlayStation move units in the UK than it has. I’d say we have a solid foothold with [Move],” Fergal Gara told MCV. Could it, should it, have done more? I think so. It is …

HMV’s Xmas would have been a lot better had there been more video games to sell, says CEO Simon Fox. His words came ahead of news that the firm has merged its games and technology teams, leading to the departure of popular games boss Tim Ellis. Ewan Pinder is now …