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The US’ Entertainment Software Association has today confirmed previous reports that the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo will run from Tuesday June 2nd to Thursday June 4th. Taking place once again at the LA Convention Centre, what has been described by the ESA as an ‘expanded E3’ will "welcome all qualified …

ESA confirms summer return of beefed up expo, with opportunity for studios to exhibit too

The reviews for Fable II are in, and according to scores aggregator Metacritic, Peter Molyneux’s masterpiece is doing pretty nicely. The highly-anticipated title, which is released in the UK this Friday, has earned an average 89 per cent from the reviews, which cover both UK and US press. Eurogamer is …

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Media mogul Sumner Redstone may decide to sell one of his businesses – incuding MTV parent Viacom and TV network CBS – following a ‘battle with his bankers’. According to The Times, Redstone last week hired Citigroup and NM Rothschild to advise on restructuring $1.6 billion (950 million) of borrowings, …

Sonic The Hedgehog has come out on top in a London Games Festival poll of the most popular games characters of all time. The spiky blue hedgehog beat out the likes of Super Mario and Lara Croft in the survey of over 500 UK gamers. The poll voted the UK’s …

No date revealed, but company promises its availability - again

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV has made a big impression on Japanese games critics by scoring a near-perfect 39/40 in weekly Japanese games bible Famitsu. GTA has long been the daddy of the Western market, but has only recently begun to gain recognition in the traditionally stubborn and localised Japanese …

Ahead of its anticipated release at the end of November, Microsoft has lifted the lid on its North American pre-order scheme for Xbox 360 karaoke title Lips. A post on the firm’s Gamerscore blog states that those who pre-order the title through either Amazon or GameStop will receive a free …

Gears Of War 2 will not be released in Germany or Japan, Microsoft has confirmed. A company spokesperson has told Edge: We can confirm that Gears of War 2 will not be available in Germany or Japan indefinitely” said the spokesperson. According to the magazine, Gears sold 33,212 copies in …