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PES 2011 arriving on the mobile platform

Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that The Tomb Raider Trilogy will exclusively hit PS3 on March 25th in the UK. The SKU includesHD remakes of both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversay as well Tomb Raider Underworld, which has previously had an HD release on PS3 and Xbox 360. …

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Global games retail giant GameStop has reported a 3.4 per cent like-for-like sales boost for the nine weeks ending January 1st. Overall the retailer saw 5.4 per cent growth compared to Christmas 2009. Revenues for the period hit $3.02bn. Hardware sales were up 7.4 per cent year-on-year with Microsoft’s Xbox …

Over 10m units of games in the MX vs ATV series have now been shipped worldwide, publisher THQ has confirmed. The announcement comes as THQ prepares to reveal the next instalment in the series at the Monster Energy AMA Supercross opening event on Saturday in the US. "This record-setting milestone …

Namco Bandai has announced Japanese hit God Eater Burst will arrive in UK stores on March 18th. The PSP action game sold half a million copies during its first three weeks on sale in Japan following its 34/40 score in Famitsu magazine. It went on to become the ninth best-selling …

The total userbase for Sony’s PlayStation Network has surpassed 60 million consumers. The platform holder announced its online service had reached this new milestone during its CES 2011 press conference in Las Vegas. The figure was given by Sony chairman, president and CEO Sir Howard Stringer during a presentation that …

Konami has confirmed that a version of PES 2011 will be released on Windows Phone 7. The game promises "the most advanced team and player AI in a mobile game" and will offer a choice of control systems – one using on-screen buttons like a normal joypad or another, called …