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A fresh blockbuster franchise will join Ubisoft’s roster when Driver returns on September 2nd. The firm has told MCV the revamped Britsoft driving game can reclaim former glories and be as lucrative as stablemate Assassin’s Creed. Driver: San Francisco arrives in September, but Ubisoft fired up the hype engine this …

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Nintendo has announced that Wii Play: Motion will be released in the UK on June 24th. The game was only announced earlier this month and will soon be winging its way to UK shelves. It features twelve mini-games designed to show off the capabilities of Nintendo’s Wii Remote Plus and …

A US man has filed a lawsuit against Sony following the PSN hacker attack and user data leak that has seen the service shut down for over a week. As noted by Cnet, Kristopher Johns, 36, from Birmingham, Alabama, filed the suit yesterday in the US District Court for the …

Game would've earned $100m, studio says, before 'erratic' superstar pulled out of deal

The hacker who arguably set the ball rolling on events that eventually lead up to the collapse of PSN last week has denied involvement in the breach – but has also taken the time to attack his former legal opponents. "And, as a onetime victim of identity theft, I feel …

Company to crack down on Modern Warfare 2 scam

Yet another online games trading portal is to attempt an assault on the UK market. Gametrade24.co.uk comes from the creators of Polish swapping site Gametrade.pl. That site enjoys around 60k registered users and gets 200k unique hits a month and 10m page views. In total the service has swapped over …

Publisher Atlus has confirmed that it is to produce two versions of both the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions of obscure sexy puzzle title Catherine. Siliconera reports that one will carry the original Japanese cover art, complete with provocative undies (on PS3) and partially exposed rear (on Xbox 360). The …

After several days of silence on the iPhone location tracking situation, Apple released a statement saying the iPhone was not logging location and that users were ‘confused’. Apple claims the iPhone is not logging the location of the user, claiming that it was instead maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots …