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In a quite cheeky bit of marketing, Bulletstorm devs People Can Fly have released a free FPS title that parodies Activision’s FPS series Call of Duty. Called Duty Calls, the 758MB download doesn’t take itself too seriously. In fact, here are some choice snippets of dialogue: "Here’s your objective: blah …

Operating profit grew to $181m in the last quarter of 2010

Sony has sold almost four million units in the UK alone. The platform holder expects to hit this sales milestone within the next few weeks, having seen strong hardware sales throughout the past year. The PS3 passed the three million sales mark last January, meaning a healthy one million units …

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A Yoostar 2 Facebook app will help the Move and Kinect title attract millions of casual gamers. It will allow users of the movie karaoke title to earn in-game currency and take part in film clips that aren’t in the console version. Yoostar has also struck a deal with YouTube …

1.2m unit sales for THQ’s Wii peripheral uDraw has lead to net sales of $314.6m for the quarter ending December 31st 2010. These numbers are ahead of expectations, though are down on the $356.7m net sales of the same period in 2009. A net loss of $14.9m was reported for …

Nine months into Sony’s current financial year and the PS3 has already outstripped its total sales for the 2009 fiscal year, Sony has reported. Year-to-date sales of the machine now stand at 15m – 2m units ahead of the total 2009 sales figure. Q3 sales reached 6.3m units, which is …

Dark Souls will be heading to UK retail on Xbox 360 and PS3 this year. It’s the result of a partnership deal between Namco Bandai and hit Japanese developer-publisher From Software. Namco Bandai will handle publishing duties for the firm’s games in the US and Europe. It was announced at …

EDUCATION WEEK: Key advice from the likes of Phil Harrison, Chris Lee and Alice Taylor

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