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GAME Australia has tweeted this morning that Dead Island has broken it’s street date, and multiple retailers are now selling the title. The zombie/tiki first-person shooter was scheduled to land tomorrow, but is now being sold through GAME, EB Games and JB HiFi, with New Zealand’s major online videogame retailer …

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After some doubted its authenticity this morning, Nintendo has confirmed that the 3DS joystick add-on is real – and is a Nintendo product. "We can confirm that Nintendo does plan to release the attachment but that any further announcements on the attachment will be made at some later time by …

Sony is pulling out all the stops to make Resistance 3 a September blockbuster, with a whopping 3m marketing spend. The PS3 exclusive hits shelves on September 9th, backed by a special outdoor event, as well as ads on TV, in cinemas, online and in print. TV ads have been …

Publisher Rising Star has managed to sell more than 1m units of the Harvest Moon series across PAL territories. Over the last decade, the UK firm has handled 13 games in Natsume’s farming series which has become the flagship of its portfolio. Reaching 1m sales of Harvest Moon is certainly …

AGI?World and Shorewood Packaging have merged to create one of the largest box manufacturers in the world. The new company, AGI-Shorewood, will have a little under 4,000 employees and 24 manufacturing facilities around the world, serving North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America.The deal is expected to be completed …

Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2 now allow users to exchange items

Around twenty jobs gone, source claims

Microsoft is to lend the FIFA branding to two new Xbox Live Points Cards. The first SKU will offer both 12 months Xbox Live Gold membership as well as 800 Microsoft Points. The second is a 2100 MSP card. Both carry the image of FIFA 12’s UK cover stars Wayne …

Sound production champs add £2,000 of studio time to grand prize