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CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S FULLY UPDATED AND COMPREHENSIVE RELEASE SCHEDULE. The first major hardware launch of Q4 gives retailers plenty to celebrate this week as Sony’s PlayStation Move hits the hard drive. The platform holder has rolled out a wide range of launch titles catering for every type of consumer …

Sony has announced a raft of new hardware SKUs for the Japanese market, and chief amongst them is a 320GB version of the Classic White PS3 first announced in July. It will cost 34,980 and will launch on October 21st. Andriasang also reports that while a Candy Pink PS3 is …

Xbox Live’s Hydrophobia is the lead game in Microsoft’s latest collection of digital titles – Game Feast. Like its Summer of Arcade promotion which featured games such as Limbo and Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light, Game Feast is Microsoft’s pick of new downloadable titles in early Q4. Hydrophobia …

Tiga condemns coalition plans to â??dry upâ?? foreign talent in the UK

Sega has become the latest company to back this year’s Games Media Awards. The publisher is sponsoring the Best Writer, Print category at the event, which takes place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom on Thursday, October 14th. Senior PR manager Stefan McGarry told MCV: We’re happy to support the event as …

THQ chief Brian Farrell says the publisher must monetise used games and has called on retail to help. The outspoken exec says the firm needs to capture more of the value chain, but insists this is not an attack on the High Street. He told MCV that THQ will help …

The slow, sorry saga of Realtime Worlds’ collapse has found another twist. Despite a failed attempt to sell off the sunken studio and its games assets, a BBC report has named Epic Games as one of the parties interested in buying the rights to APB. The game was built using …

We’ve never been given any firm sales numbers for the PSPgo, leaving the industry to draw its own conclusions about the device. But Sony has insisted that the portable has successfully met its own expectations. The PSP Go is not the PSP2. It was just a different form-factor. It’s met …

Seven temp roles remain to wind business down; redundancy complaints raised; US studio fate unknown; announcement expected

Japanese publisher Square Enix has revealed a new strategic partnership with online games giant Shanda that will see the Final Fantasy series get its first ever official release in China. The first game to get a release will be MMO outing Final Fantasy XIV, though the date of its arrival …