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Two of Japan’s major online retailers have seen their pre-order allocation of Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Vita snapped up just hours after going on sale. RPGsite reports that both Amazon Japan and Yodobashi are both listing the handheld as being out of stock and any new customers who attempt to pre-order …

Tomorrow’s edition of rock bible Kerrang is dedicated to all things gaming. Named Kerrang Presents: The Videogame issue, the new edition features head-to-head gaming showdowns, special photoshoots, reviews, and a whole lot more. Pop Punk heroes New Found Glory are the cover stars, while readers can find out what happened …

EA-owned developer DICE has released a number of stats about its recent Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta. A total of 8,125,310 took part in the game, firing a total of 47bn bullets and downing 1.5bn other players. 19m players were killed by a knife while 21m M-Com stations were destroyed. 2.2bn …

Playniac's Rob Davis introduces the concept of 'wireframe narratives'

One of the most cherished titles in Nintendo’s portable arsenal has announced its move into the iOS market while Studio Ghibli’s beautiful RPG Ni No Kuni has been confirmed for the West. Japanese development giant Level-5 has revealed that a new entry in the Professor Layton series is in development …

Capcom will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its demon-slaughtering action series Devil May Cry with a HD compilation. The new SKU – originally titled Devil May Cry HD Collection – will be released for Xbox 360 and PS3 in early 2012. It will feature high-definition versions of Devil May Cry, …

Distributor Entatech is gearing up for its Mad Catz demo day, which will take place in Milton Keynes this Thursday. The event will be held at the Xscape entertainment centre and will showcase a range of the peripherals specialist’s console and PC gaming accessories to resellers. As well as the …

Eight years on from its video games debut, French comic IP XIII is to re-enter the video games market with a new game called XII Lost Identity. In 2003 Ubisoft published XIII on PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC. Though graphically striking thanks to its use of cel-shaded graphics, the game …

Rockstar has confirmed that it does in fact intend to release Grand Theft Auto III on older, single-core iPhone and iPads. Last week MCV reported that as part of the game’s ten-year anniversary developer Rockstar was to release it on select iOS and Android devices – namely, those with a …

Beatnik Games CEO Sherif Aziz talks about why he believes this is 'the best era yet to be an Indie'