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Sony Pictures’ and Marvel Studios’ eagerly anticipated Spider-man 4 has been dated for May 6th 2011, with Marvel confirming a number of films that will see three year’s worth of summer blockbusters. Alongside the web-crawler, also on the way is Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), The First Avenger: Captain …

Emerging games publisher Warner has seen its gaming line-up receive a sizable boost in the arm with the expiration of EA’s licensing deal for the Lord of the Ring s franchise – with the rights now back with Warner-owned New Line Cinema. Variety reports that EA’s deal with New Line …

Creative Assembly is set to follow-up t he success of Empire: Total War, with futuristic console RTS, Stormrise. 2009 has already been a big year for the RTS genre, with Dawn of War II, Halo Wars and Empire: Total War performing well in the All Formats Top Ten. And Creative …

Flying in the face of the wallet-tightening global credit crunch, it has been revealed that the full-price, complete band kit SKU of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero: World Tour has to date outsold both of its cheaper SKU rivals in North America. Click here to read more over on CasualGaming.biz.

On the eve of the release of Resident Evil 5, Capcom has unveiled three new Resident Evil titles for Nintendo Wii. The first game on the schedule is Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, a sequel to Capcom’s hit on-rails Wii blaster, The Umbrella Chronicles. The game focuses on Capcom’s 1998 …

Electronic Arts has backed MCV’s complaint to the Advertising Stands Authority over the Government’s controversial print ad for its Change4Life campaign. Since MCV announced last week that it had filed an official complaint with the ASA regarding the Government’s Change4Life campaign, Codemasters, Konami, Future, Tiga, Atari and Sega have all …

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The UK High Street is this morning ‘digesting’ the news that the Wii trade cost is set to rise, and hasn’t ruled out an increase in the console’s street price. The trade price for Nintendo Wii is set to increase by around 16.50 (approximately 19 including VAT) due to the …

Nintendo has dated the next games in its New Play Control! series for Wii. Strategy action title, Pikmin 2 is set to crawl onto retail shelves on April 24th, while Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat is scheduled to arrive at an unspecified point in the summer. The New Play Control! series …