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UK retail giant GAME will be the official sponsors of the next three BAFTA Games Awards. Having sponsored the 2009 event, the company has signed a three-year partnership deal with the British Academy, starting with the next awards ceremony, due to be held on March 19th, 2010. Following the success …

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Eager fans are counting down the minutes until Square Enix Europe unveils the latest Final Fantasy XIII trailer at the game’s official site. And the unveiling will bring with it, the publisher says, some big news about the title. The hotly-tipped RPG has been in development for a number of …

Following its jaw-dropping day one UK sales, online bookies PaddyPower have revealed a number of new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 related bets including 1/3 odds on it going on to become the best selling video game of all time. Punters are now also able to bet on just …

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Activision sold 1.23 million copies of Modern Warfare 2 in the UK on the game’s first day on release, MCV can reveal. Incredibly, that’s double the number GTA IV sold through in its first 24 hours on shelves – making MW2 by far the fastest-selling video game in UK history. …

The former chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Ken Kutaragi, has established a new company in Tokyo. A report from Japanese news group Nikkei, brought to attention in a Kotaku report, claims that the new company is called ‘Cyber AI Entertainment’. Kutaragi, widely known as the ‘father of PlayStation’, …

Microsoft has confirmed that its new Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter will be released in the UK on November 20th. The platform holder also told Eurogamer that the device will cost 59.99 – the same price as the current wi-fi adapter that has been available since the console’s launch. The …

Its offering might not yet be quite broad enough to rival some of the more established players in the market, but Microsoft’s MP3player/iPodKiller/portableXbox multimedia device Zune has taken its first tentative steps into the games market with the arrival of a number of 3D games on its digital storefront. The …