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Having trawled through over 800 emails and thousands of individual nominations, MCV can reveal the finalists of this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Games. Some 17 print publications, 20 websites, podcasts and blogs, plus 26 individual writers are all up for an award, with a panel of …
Read More ȣ115 Р3DS price wars begin afresh
With the official UK price cut coming up tomorrow, retail has started to show its hand regarding the levels to which it is prepared to cut the price of the freshly discounted 3DS. And Tesco seems to be the current front-runner following leaked POS indicating it will be selling the …
Read More »NPD comes to the UK
Market research company NPD, which is best known for compiling the US video game charts, is coming to Europe. And furthermore, it intends to deliver something we’ve until now been without – a complete and regularly updated picture of total consumer video games expenditure outside of the physical games market. …
Read More »Apple becomes world’s most valuable company
Think about this for a moment. The world revolves around oil. We all need energy. And the bankers? Rolling in it. But as of today who’s the world’s biggest company? Apple. Yes. Our appetite for aesthetically pleasing, user-friendly and arguably over-priced consumer electronics has grown to such a degree that …
Read More »GameStop moves first on UK 3DS price
This Friday marks the arrival of the anticipated 3DS price cut – but online retailer GameStop has kicked off its discount early. GameStop.co.uk is currently selling the device for just 134.97 with free delivery. This puts it some way ahead of its online competitors. Amazon is selling the handheld for …
Read More »Flame Red 3DS hitting US next month
A brand new colour for the 3DS will hit US retailers on September 9th, the platform holder has announced. It’s called the Flame Red edition, and it will be launched alongside the release of first party shooter Star Fox 64 3D. To date only the Aqua Blue and Cosmos Black …
Read More »EA’s Battlefield 3 marketing campaign is working
Amazon has announced that pre-orders for EA’s Battlefield 3 are currently tracking at 2,302 per cent above Battlefield 2. It’s an early vindication of the time and money EA has already put into its marketing activity. It seems that the risk of going so early with the hugely expensive FA …
Read More »New FIFA 12 feature revealed: Rooney’s extra hair
Enhanced player control? More online options? Bah, forget it. What we want from FIFA 12 is better hair. And what we want, EA delivers. Following his high-profile hair transplant (yes, this is Britain – a high-profile” hair transplant) Man United striker Wayne Rooney has gone from ‘balding’ to ‘thinning’. And …
Read More »Epic: What’s the point of next-gen consoles?
The Wii U will be out in 2012, many expect a new Xbox reveal at E3 next year and we know work on the PS4 has begun. But Epic president Mike Capps has questioned the need for new consoles entirely. "I think the real challenge for us now is about …
Read More »Transformers MMO entering beta "very soon"
Leading social games specialist Jagex has said that its Transformers Universe MMO will enter the beta testing phase in the very near future. A 55-strong development team is currently hard at work on the title, with numbers expecting to hit 70 and total development time calculated to be under 23 …
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