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Ubisoft has revealed that upcoming release Driver: San Francisco will receive a full digital release on the PlayStation Network. Though no firm release date for the PSN version was given, Ubisoft Reflections MD Garth Edmonson told a Gamescom panel last week that it would arrive in a few weeks”, suggesting …
Read More »Skyrim going hands-on at Eurogamer Expo
Eurogamer has announced that Bethesda’s much hyped RPG The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo that kicks off on September 22nd. It’s the first chance that the general public will have to get their hands on the game, which will be released in the UK …
Read More »GameStop ‘understands’ publishers’ pre-owned misgivings
The pre-owned games sector is very beneficial to the health of the overall games sector, retailer GameStop has argued. Though they rarely express the opinion publicly, many publisher execs consider pre-owned games as unfairly robbing them of revenue that is instead reserved exclusively for retailers. But GameStop’s executive VP Mike …
Read More »Gamescom celebrates record attendance
Last week’s Gamescom 2011 was an unprecedented success. In total 275,000 visitors attended the trade and consumer video games show, beating all previous records for the event and bettering 2010 by eight per cent. 557 companies spanning 39 countries were in attendance, with 257 exhibitors. Over 5,000 media reps were …
Read More »Xbox price drop not on the cards
Consumers hoping to see an Xbox 360 price cut to counter the recent drops on PS3 look to be in for some disappointing news. When asked by VG247 if Microsoft is preparing a hardware price drop of its own, European interactive entertainment VP Chris Lewis responded: No. As you can …
Read More »PS3 sales leap following price drop
Sales of PS3 hardware have enjoyed a significant spike in the UK following the machine’s price cut. A reliable retail source has told MCV that Sony’s machine saw a sales increase of nearly 65 per cent week-on-week following the decision to cut the RRP of the base model to just …
Read More »Fox giving Gearbox room to breathe
Its long development cycle may give the impression of fraught relationships behind the scenes, but developer Gearbox has got nothing but praise for 20th Century Fox. The studio is currently hard at work on tense shooter title Aliens: Colonial Marine. And speaking to GameSpot, Gearbox’s chief creative officer Brian Martel …
Read More »BioWare: RPGs are becoming less relevant
From Final Fantasy to Mass Effect, the RPG of today is barely recognisable compared to the titles that made the genre great. This perhaps explains why in the latest video for Mass Effect 3, BioWare almost completely ignored the RPG elements of the title to instead focus on the in-game …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Ten on the trot for Zumba
What an achievement. 505 Games’ Zumba Fitness has this week claimed its tenth successive UK No.1. It’s the games 13th time atop of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. However, the chances of Zumba claiming its 14th No.1 next week are less enticing, what with the upcoming arrival …
Read More »EA says thanks but no thanks to Activison’s call for calm
Just last week Activision’s Eric Hirshberg called out EA for trash talking the Call of Duty series. Can you imagine the head of Dreamworks animation coming out with a new movie and going to the press and saying that he wants Toy Story to ‘rot from the core’?”, the exec …
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