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Anyone seeking a refund on the now-defunct PC MMO title APB should speak to the retailer from whom they purchased the game, the administrator handling the closure of developer Realtime Worlds has stated. The Dundee-based studio went into administration in August following the critical and commercial failure of the game, …

A new and interesting inclusion in Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 has been revealed that will allow gamers to play some aspects of the game remotely via a web browser. GamePro reports that the B-Spec mode – essentially a management option where gamers don’t race per se but instead control the …

Colorado studio now likely to apply for Chapter 7 Protection

The UK games market’s up-and-coming hot shots will once again compete for industry recognition as MCV readies its annual presentation of the top 30 rising stars aged under 30. You can nominate your staff, a colleague, a peer or even yourself by emailing MCV Editor-in-Chief Michael.French@intentmedia.co.uk. The ever-popular 30 Under …

The Xbox 360 Kinect will outsell Apple’s highly successful iPad – that’s the claim being made by Microsoft at the Tokyo Game Show. The pre-orders have been really strong,” official Kinect spokesperson Kudo Tsunoda told Gamasutra. As far as what we’re looking at for holiday, this is going to be …

Morrisons buyer Kevin Lee is the latest addition to the ERA board. He was elected as part at the ERA AGM yesterday, and means all four of the UK’s biggest supermarkets are now represented by the association. He is joined by We7’s music strategy boss Clive Gardiner, Alan Jordan who …

Best Buy’s CEO has hinted that Apple’s iPad is taking market share from laptops. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Brian Dunn said that the retailers internal estimates suggested that iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 per cent.” The revelations come as …

Sony has announced that the next PS3 system update will include support for 3D Blu-rays. The platform holder’s US blog revealed that firmware update 3.50 will go live on September 21, enabling consumers to watch 3D content on Blu-ray discs such as the upcoming re-release of James Cameron’s Avatar. Sony …

This week saw the launch of the slimmed-down Xbox 360 S in Japan, but figures from Media Create as reported by Spong show that the new console sold just 700 units, accounting for less than 20 per cent of total Xbox 360 hardware sales. The best selling machine of the …