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Microsoft will at next month’s Spike TV Video Game Awards announce a surprise successor to Xbox 360 horror title Alan Wake. Furthermore the platform holder has confirmed that the game will be a digital-only release on Xbox Live. Of course, this doesn’t mean retail is left out of the loop …
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Brand Map: Super Mario Bros
This week we look at playing habits for one of the biggest game franchises of all time. In the past five years, Super Mario Bros has enjoyed a new life on the Nintendo DS and Wii.With the 3DS now available we haven’t had to wait long for news of a …
Read More »Sticking with Battlefield or moving to Modern Warfare?
Battlefield 3 may already be sitting on the shelves of some 5m gamers, but EA knows that’s not the end of the challenge. With Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 being released worldwide on Tuesday November 8th, it’s safe to assume that at least a proportion of this user …
Read More »Rising Star signs BIT.TRIP range
The six classic BIT.TRIP video games are coming to UK retail for the first time. Rising Star Games has signed a deal with Gaijin Games to release BIT.TRIP Complete on Wii and BIT.TRIP Saga on 3DS during the first three months of 2012. The BIT.TRIP titles are rhythm adventure games …
Read More »Second-user charges are ‘less than ideal’
The schemes have their critics, but Codemasters says publishers had no choice but to introduce Online Passes. The tactic has seen software houses include one-time codes in new copies of their titles to unlock content. Pre-owned users must buy the code online to access the same content. Online Passes have …
Read More »Zumba Fitness 2 out this month
One of the year’s bestselling games will get a sequel in just a few weeks. 505 Games has confirmed with MCV that it has officially signed up the rights to Zumba Fitness 2 for Wii. The game will debut on November 25th. A Kinect version will arrive in Q1 2012. …
Read More »Countdown to LGC: Now Screen Digest offers free data, too
Thought our 'free NPD data' offer was good? Well, it gets better.
Read More »LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE: Now Screen Digest offers free data, too
Thought our ‘free NPD data’ offer was good? Well, it gets better. Screen Digest has also signed up to offer two free reports to those who buy a ticket for next week’s digital games summit. Delegates to the November 10th London Games Conference will get Screen Digest reports in their …
Read More »OPINION: The Return of GTA
We’re just a few hours away from finally having some of the answers. Will Rockstar North choose to revisit San Andreas, its digital recreation of an entire state, or the neon-clad Vice City? Will it go for somewhere else, but another slice of Americana? Or maybe somewhere different – a …
Read More »Dark Souls ships 1.5m units
Namco Bandai’s rock hard RPG Dark Souls has reached 1.5m shipments worldwide in just over one month. Andriasang reports that more copies of the game have been shipped to retailers in Europe than its home country Japan, with 470,000 shipped in the former and 370,000 the latter. 40,000 units have …
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