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Having shot straight to number one in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, Sony has revealed that landmark PS3 release Heavy Rain is suffering shortages on the UK High Street. However, Sony hopes to have got extra stock into the channel by next week. We have …

What would a game series based on The Sopranos look like, asks studio CEO

A new Borderlands DLC pack will be released in stores, containing previously download-only content. 2K Games has confirmed the disc will include two of the three expansions – The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned and Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot. It will not include The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. The …

Codemasters is to become the latest publisher to reward those who buy their games brand new with digital content not available to pre-owned buyers. This will begin with Race Driver: GRID Reloaded, due for release on Thursday, March 11th for PS3. The new SKU will include a copy of the …

Microsoft’s motion sensing camera Natal has come in for some praise from an unlikely source – the former boss of SCE owned developer Naughty Dog. Speaking to GameTrailers, the studio’s co-founder and ex-president Jason Rubin stated: I think Natal and things like Natal are going to revolutionise more than gaming. …

Telltale Games' co-founder on the evolution of episodic content

Livingstone and Oliver list numerous tax break benefits

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The Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII is on track to outsell the PS3 SKU by two-to-one – that’s the prediction of discount shopping portal MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. The site comes to the conclusion based on the number of searches made on its server, with interest in the Xbox 360 title …

The conspiracy theorists are out in force this morning after what began as a global issue with Sony’s PSN network has now escalated to what many people are calling an internal problem with some older PS3 consoles. Over the weekend many PS3 owners began complaining that they were unable to …