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Budget multiformat game Pure Football has been advertised by Blockbuster for 9.99 – less than two months after it hit store shelves. The retailer has placed a series of ads in Metro listing the game at 9.99. It is selling copies of Ubisoft’s five-a-side footie title on its website as …

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Cloud gaming service OnLive may not be to the taste of the hardcore market, CEO Steve Perlman has told Cnet. Anybody that’s a serious gamer plays games in more than one place,” he explained. If you’re a hardcore gamer and you’ve got a big rig and you want the highest …

High-spec games on any platform that can go online – that was the boast of ambitious cloud gaming service OnLive, but already one title has arrived which challenges the philosophy. In an interview with Cnet, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman has admitted that EA’s Xbox and PC exclusivity deal for Mass …

OnLive is enjoying user numbers far bigger than expected”, according to CEO Steve Perlman, though the firm isn’t yet wiling to reveal exactly how many people have been logging onto the US service. We’re running at our autumn projected subscriber numbers, so adjusting was a bit of a challenge,” he …

Slow-burning sales continues to encourage Activision

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ assertion that the iPhone 4 is not alone in experiencing signal degradation when held in a user’s hands has been met with outrage and ridicule in equal measure from rival handset manufacturers. Speaking to a select group of journalists on Friday, Jobs claimed that the iPhone …

The popular iPhone and PC casual strategy game Plants vs Zombies will be heading to Xbox 360 this September. Consumers will be able to purchase a boxed edition of the game or download it from Xbox Live for 1,200 Microsoft Points – around 10. PopCap also confirmed retail versions of …

Nick Davies of UK developer Bizarre Creations has claimed that new racing IP Blur will return with a future instalment. The game failed to perform in either the UK or US upon its debut in late May, though it has been suggested that it enjoyed a resilient June. Indeed, the …