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Close to 600 branches of GAME and Gamestation will open their doors on the night of Monday November 7th for the arrival of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. A total of 574 stores will open at around 11:45pm on the night. As usual, GAME Oxford Street will be …

Ridge Racer Unbounded will race to UK retailers on March 2nd 2012 and North America a few days later. The Namco Bandai driving game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC is the latest in the long-running Ridge Racer series, which first hit arcades and the PlayStation in the early ‘90s. …

Gameloft sales during the third quarter of 2011 ended at $56 million, the company has announced. The figure is up 17 per cent from the previous year, with Europe and North America representing 57 per cent of sales. Smartphone and tablet game sales meanwhile grew by 60 per cent year-on-year, …

AMD will shed 10 per cent of the firm’s global work force as part of a restructuring plan designed to facilitate a "competitive cost structure," the chipmaker announced. The restructuring will trim $10 million in 2011 and $118 million in 2012. In addition to laying off around one in ten …

Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online has received 120,000 new registrations since it went free-to-play earlier this week. The superhero MMO was first launched for with a subscription model back in January, but dropped these fees on Monday. The surge in new users for the PC version was confirmed by …

120,000 register interest for free version of DC Universe Online

Developer Gearbox has accused game reviewers of unfairly marking down Duke Nukem Forever, which was finally released in June after over a decade in development. The game carries a very low 49 per cent average on aggregation site Metacritic (on Xbox 360) and was widely derided for its poor execution, …

Sonic The Hedgehog returns in a title that will satisfy fans both old and new as the athletic mascot marks his 20th Anniversary. Sega’s Sonic Generations allows players to blast through each level as both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic. The former revisits the 2D side-scrolling platform action of the …

Global restructuring plan expected to save $128m in operational costs by 2012

Sales have been strong and the critical reception not bad, but Battlefield 3 has failed to clear the first hurdle in its race against the behemoth that is Call of Duty. The latest Xbox Live user chart from Microsoft shows that Battlefield 3 was only the third most played game …