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Activision has told MCV it will keep aggressively growing its share of the music category through retail collaborations, new promotions and expansion to new genres. The publisher was celebrating this week after the Guitar Hero franchise secured its first number one – Guitar Hero 5 managed to top the UK …

Square Enix has confirmed it will be bringing Star Ocean: The Last Hope – International will be released on PS3 next year. The Last Hope was originally the first Xbox 360 exclusive instalment in the long-running RPG series, which has traditionally been released on PlayStation consoles. It served as a …

GAME.co.uk is exclusively selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Veteran Edition for Xbox 360 and PS3. The set includes the hardened edition of the game, which comes with an artbook, a digital code to download Call of Duty Classic, and a SteelBook case, as well as a unique gift …

For the second time this week a leaked ad from North America has backed up the belief that Nintendo will announce a Wii price cut later this month at its private event running alongside the Tokyo Game Show. This time the claims from Kotaku, which has evidence of an ad …

Free-to-play title Dungeon Runners â??just isn't cutting the mustardâ? says lead dev

NCsoft has announced its upcoming MMO, Aion: The Tower Of Eternity, has generated almost 400,000 pre-orders. The game, which introduces aerial combat to the usual MMORPG fare, is due for release on September 22nd in the US and on September 25th in the UK. Anyone who has pre-ordered the game …

Delegates have just one day left to book their place at London Games Conference at a special early bird discount rate. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, big name publishers, leading edge developers and pioneers of digital distribution will all form part of a wide-ranging programme at the first ever London Games Conference …

Likes of ESRB and PEGI will overview Minis in their jurisdiction

Legendary video games developer Charles Cecil and Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons are to co-host their first public screening at BAFTA, Piccadilly on October 5th. The presentation, dubbed Reinventing A Gaming Classic: iPhone Beneath a Steel Sky” will examine the pair’s achievements and discuss their new partnership going forwards as they …

A feature on the Sony PlayStation 3 on BBC’s consumer rights show Watchdog last night has left the UK games industry unimpressed thanks to a string of inaccuracies and questionable data. Kicking off with the claim that PS3 costs 400 – something that hasn’t been true for nearly two years …