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Leading independent online games retailer ShopTo.net has doubled its warehouse capacity as we enter the busy Q4 period. It means that in the region of 1,600 items are now available in its under five minute dispatch” offer. It says that system makes ShopTo the fastest dispatch company in the games …

One of the worst kept secrets in the games industry is out – developer Starbreeze is indeed working on a brand new Syndicate game for EA. The publisher has given it a release date of early 2012 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Coming in the wake of Deus Ex’s …

A slightly slower time at retail than the Deus Ex-fuelled week last week, but El Shaddai, Star Fox 64 3D and Rise of Nightmares are keeping the core games coming. Star Fox 64 3D is the 3DS reimagining of the classic franchise for Nintendo’s handheld, and is available on Thursday …

GAME Australia has introduced a revamped reward card scheme which has ruffled a few feathers down under with (pictured) risque advertising. The new scheme, dubbed GAME ON, rewards consumers with 10 points per $1 spent, with 1000 points being claimable as $2 back on in-store purchases. Ben Grant, marketing director …

Australian indie developer Dinoroar Interactive has announced today the launch of its new iOS game Tapmatic. The game is a memory-based game of duplication, where players are tasked with recreating an increasingly difficult coloured sequence of button presses. Aileen Bautista, founder and CEO of Dinoroar, said: "This game isn’t for …

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We look at the year-on-year change in overall advertising activity for video games on TV from March 27th to August 21st. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. This week we also explain whether there has been a year-on-year change in the …

The freshly announced Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of 2007 PC shooter Crysis will be digital-only releases. The game, which was only announced this morning, will cost 1600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live Games on Demand (around 13.70) or 15.99 on the PlayStation Network. It will differ from the original …