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11 months on from its belated worldwide release, Polyphony Digital is to release the first premium DLC for hit PS3 racer Gran Turismo 5. Launching on October 18th, four individual DLC packs will be released for the game. The Racing Car Pack, priced at $7.99, includes 15 cars such as …

Sony is hatching a plan that it hopes will entice more PSP owners to its next-generation PlayStation Vita system. The only form of physical media that Vita uses is a proprietary memory card format, meaning that those with a library of UMD titles for their PSP face either holding on …

PlayStation Vita owners will face a very stark choice when the system arrives in the UK next year – pay a premium price for boxed games or a discounted price to download the digital version. This will for the first time place Sony squarely up against retail as opponents, fighting …

Wargaming.net’s online multiplayer war shooter World of Tanks is heading to UK retail next month, courtesy of publisher Deep Silver. MCV can reveal that the PC title’s UK release date is November 11th. The Russian version of World of Tanks arrived first in 2010 and the European and North American …

Studio workers' complaints 'were fair'

Shift away from UK 'passes savings onto the customer', outsource firm says

The biggest 20 games operators on Facebook are combating a steady drop in daily user retention, an analyst group has said. IHS Screen Digest claims that, during the first three quarters of 2011, the likes of Zynga and PopCap noticed a downward trend in user engagement. User engagement is a …

Silent Hill: Downpour has been officially delayed and will not now be released until Q1 2012. The game had previously been down for a November release on both PS3 and Xbox 360. It will now be released some time in Q1 2012. Furthermore, Konami has retorted to claims of a …

Don’t expect any official word on the subject until next summer, but details posted on a number of CVs online has reignited talk about the next-generation Xbox console. Supererogatory dug up the details of four Microsoft employees. One, Jeff Faulkner, says he assumed the role of ‘creative director of Xbox …

'Floating core players' becoming a key battleground across the social network