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Sales monitor GfK-ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it hopes to set up a chart of UK digital downloads by the end of this year. The company said it was in ‘active discussions’ with a number of leading providers of downloadable digital content with a view to inking a deal …
Read More »Sony and Microsoft wage Metacritic war
Amidst all the talk of NPD’s March year-on-year hardware sales comparisons, chart-topping software battles and third party revenue numbers, Sony and Microsoft both chose to play the PR game on another front – Metacritic review aggregations. In its post-March response, Sony stated that: Approximately one in every three PS3 titles …
Read More »NPD: Hardware and digital sales surge for Microsoft
Microsoft was understandably upbeat following the release of NPD’s March statistics, which showed that Xbox 360 was the only console to see year-on-year hardware sales increases. The 360 sold 330,000 units throughout the month, a 25 per cent increase on the same month in 2008. The numbers, the platform holder …
Read More »Damnation shooting to retail next month
UK publisher Codemasters has named May 22nd as the day it will release its interesting Xbox 360, PS3 and PC shooter Damnation in Europe. The game distances itself from its many competitors by trying to bring to shooting genre to a true 3D gaming arena, with vertically varied environments requiring …
Read More »OutRun Online Arcade hits consoles tomorrow
The latest instalment to Sega’s popular racing franchise, OutRun Online Arcade, will arrive on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow and Sony’s PlayStation Network the following day, it has been confirmed. The game will cost 800 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360 and 7.99 on PSN. OutRun Online Arcade is the …
Read More »Microsoft extends three year 360 warranty conditions
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has altered the terms of conditions of its three year Xbox 360 warranty scheme to include problems related to the common E74 error. In 2007 Microsoft admitted that it was, at the time, not happy with the number of Xbox 360’s suffering the so-called Red …
Read More »Konami lifts the lid on Saw
Japanese publisher Konami has spoken officially for the first time about its official deal to publish the first video game based on controversial survival horror franchise Saw. The game takes place inside the corridors of an abandoned insane asylum that has been taken over by Jigsaw, and will include exploration …
Read More »Prototype release date smashes into view
Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed its ex-Vivendi free-roaming action title Prototype will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on June 5th in Europe – with American gamers having to wait until June 9th. Prototype takes the sandbox city formula and mixes up by granting players mutated shape-shifting super …
Read More »Iraq’s Fallujah conflict chronicled in new Konami title
Can video games tackle sensitive subjects surrounding the current conflict in Iraq? Konami seems to think so, having signed up US independent Atomic Games and its new game Six Days In Fallujah. The 360, PS3 and PC game is inspired by US Marines who served during the November 2004 battle …
Read More »Lewis: Sonys PS2 move is not unexpected
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has told MCV that it’s not surprised by Sony’s PS2 price drop announced today, saying that the console is now at the end of its lifecycle. This move from Sony at the end of the PS2’s life cycle is not unexpected,” Microsoft’s regional VP of …
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