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The fifth and final chapter of Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season One will release next week for consoles, PC, and iOS. ‘Episode Five – No Time Left’ will arrive first on Tuesday, November 20th on the North American Playstation Network, and November 21st on the European Playstation Network, Xbox Live, …
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Black Ops II moves over 1m units at Gamestop to set launch day record
GameStop has announced it sold over 1m copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops II yesterday. President Tony Bartel told Business Week that the figure is on pace to set the retail chain’s largest launch of all time. ‘Black Ops II’ is shaping up to be our biggest game launch …
Read More »Read the MCV Wonderbook Supplement
Wonderbook: Book of Spells hits shelves this week, and to mark its arrival MCV has published a special trade supplement devoted to the new product. As well as details on the marketing, PR, plus retail plans, we also speak to Sony’s UK boss Fergal Gara and the Wonderbook game director …
Read More »6 reasons you cannot miss the London Games Conference
The market is in transition and the November 21st LGC will prepare you for change. Here’s our quick guide to why you should be there… 1. It will help you grow your business The focused agenda has been created to help deliver insight into the twin challenges of digital discovery …
Read More »UPDATED: Black Ops II discs inexplicably contain Mass Effect 2 data
Select players who purchased retail PC copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 are discovering an odd, frustrating surprise. Reports from the Call of Duty forums, Steam, and Reddit (among other sites) are claiming the second installation disc for Activision’s shooter is actually for Mass Effect 2. Along with …
Read More »Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm launch dated
The next installment in the Starcraft II trilogy is set to arrive on March 12th, with Blizzard opening up pre-orders for standard and digital deluxe editions starting today. Blizzard solidifies the target date after noting last week in its financial report that the company hoped to launch the expansion sometime …
Read More »New marketing director for Xbox UK
Long-serving Microsoft exec Harvey Eagle has this week been appointed the new marketing director for Xbox UK. Eagle was previously Interactive Entertainment Business Category Director across the EMEA region, working for Jeremy Dale. Prior to that, he has been a key member of the EMEA Xbox team for the last …
Read More »Individual Kinect Sports 2 events to be sold on Xbox Live
Microsoft is to chop up previous full release Kinect Sports: Season Two into smaller, downloadable chunks. Specifically, three of the game’s individual events are to be made available for 240 Microsoft Points each – Darts vs Zombies, Ski Race and 3 Point Contest. Each will offer a total of 50 …
Read More »Blockbuster publishes digital magazine
Retailer Blockbuster has ventured into the world of digital publishing with a brand new iPad, Android and Kindle magazine. Covering films and games, it’s free to download and contain lots of rich media such as embedded video, interactive content and interviews. The publication is produced in-house and obviously links through …
Read More »Black Ops 2 out in India tomorrow; special offer for Xbox 360 buyers
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will hit store shelves tomorrow, the game’s Indian distributor as confirmed. The game was originally scheduled for release today, but World Wide CD ROMs had told MCV that there were some customs delays due to the fact that the release coincides with Diwali. WWC …
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