Capcom’s Dead Rising: Case Zero has been played by over 300,000 consumers after only a week on sale. The downloadable prequel to the highly anticipated Dead Rising 2 has already seen over 328,290 entries appear on its public leaderboards, according to Gamasutra. Case Zero gives players the chance to try …

The industry will decide which association it wants to join, says Rawlinson

Microsoft has at last gone official on the bundle first spotted last month by revealing the 250GB version of its Xbox 360 Kinect hardware bundle. The SKU will include the high-capacity 250GB variant of the Xbox 360 S, a Kinect camera and a copy of Kinect Adventures. It will retail …

Rawlinson: The games business is no longer made up of isolated components

The Xbox 360 version of PopCap’s successful desktop defence title Plants vs Zombies will be released on XBL tomorrow (September 8th) for 1200 Microsoft Points – which is around 10. PopCap also confirmed retail versions of Zuma and Peggle will hit stores later this year. Plants vs Zombies on Xbox …

Consumers looking to get involved in the PlayStation Move experience but not intending to pick up the Move Starter Pack will be able to download demos of a number of Move-compatible titles over PSN. The news comes from the US PlayStation forum where the platform holder states: Most of the …

The decline of the boxed PC games market has claimed one of its most high-profile casualties yet with news that the PC arm of famed football management series Championship Manager has been put on hold”. Instead, developer Beautiful Game Studios is to focus on expanding the series into growing markets …

One of the key personnel behind the creation of Xbox Live has left his position at Microsoft for a new role in retail. According to his blog, Andre Vrignaud has joined the team at Amazon. While he hasn’t revealed his new position, it is hinted that it will be heavily …

Reports have emerged that 2K Games’ Mafia II has been banned in the United Arab Emirates. The Naitional Media Council has banned the game from being released and officially sold at any retail outlets in the region, according to MEGamers. While no specific reasons have been given for this ruling, …

You’ve recently changed roles. What does your job entail now?Call of Duty’s global business unit is based in Santa Monica and is led by Philip Earl. I’m leading the business unit here in Europe. We have a team of dedicated core people working in each country – France, UK, Italy, …