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Following its recent price cuts to its hardware SKUs in both North America and Japan (though not Europe – yet) Microsoft has announced a limited time promotion on Xbox Live that will see an assortment of DLC cut in price. With cuts of up to 60 per cent, leading offers …

Following Sony’s decision to recall 438,000 of its Vaio laptop PCs, the company’s share price has fallen by over four per cent to reach its lowest in nearly three years. Reuters reports that the laptop recall was initiated after a number of reported problems involving the device’s battery overheating. It’s …

Publisherâ??s mobile division working on nine titles

HMV has revealed details of its latest 18 week trading period ending August 30th 2008, seeing total sales growth of 8.6 per cent for HMV UK and Ireland. Like-for-like sales growth reached 4.3 per cent, driven by strategic moves to increase its presence in the games and technology markets. In …

Those looking forward to Rock Band 2 have been told that they will be able to transfer tracks from the first game for use with the sequel – albeit for a price. Xbox 360 owners will be charged 400 Microsoft points (around 3.50) to move 55 of Rock Band’s 59-track …

UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence to see researchers and academics discussing game applications

Mega-publisher Activision-Blizzard has confirmed that Treyarch’s anticipated WWII shooter Call of Duty: World at War will be released on 360, PS3, Wii, DS and PC on November 11th. There’s no word yet on a European release date, but the odds are now surely on its continental arrival occurring on the …

Just last week EA announced that the release of its brand new sci-fi survival horror IP Dead Space had been moved forward a week from the initially touted Halloween to October 24th – but seemingly that’s simply not soon enough. The publisher has now stated that the US release has …

Localising and testing firm's biz dev manager to remain in industry

Take Two has confirmed that the highly anticipated BioShock 2 will arrive during the firm’s 2009 fiscal year, which begins November 1st. There is currently no confirmation as to which platforms the game will appear on, with the PS3 version of the original BioShock due out next month. Take Two …