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Last week, two of the biggest products of the year launched within 24 hours – and games retail certainly rose to the occasion. The High Street is accustomed to handling midnight openings and star-studded launch parties, but the timing of Black Ops’ and Kinect’s UK debuts triggered the busiest week in …

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PS3 owners who have signed up to the PSN+ online service can download and play the Killzone 3 beta – for one day only. The beta allows gamers to experience the upcoming PS3 exclusive FPS before its February 2011 release. Sony made the following announcement on its European PlayStation Blog …

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The latest release in the Assassin’s Creed saga – which is doing brilliantly with critics – has sparked off yet another price war on the UK High Street. The headline price comes from HMV, which is selling the game for just 2.99 when customers trade-in a copy of last week’s …

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Any hopes of 3D TV being high on consumer’s Christmas wish lists this year appear to have vanished as a new survey suggests that the appetite for the technology in the UK is almost non-existent. A study from price comparison site Twenga, reported by Reg Hardware, which polled over 3,000 …

Books-a-Million has announced it has started selling video games. The US retailer now stocks games in some of its 200-plus stores spread throughout the American South and Northeast, according to Gamasutra. The titles stock initially seem to be pre-owned titles, although it is unclear where the stock originates from. It …

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Mobile games publisher Chillingo, barely known a year ago but now ubiquitous thanks to Angry Birds, beat off the challenge of established powerhouses to claim the Best Games Company gong at last night’s ME Awards. In doing so it successfully beat off rivals such as Gameloft and its new owners …