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EA has announced a new Limited Edition version of Battlefield 3. It’s probably unlikely that the full name – The Battlefield 3 Limited Edition: Physical Warfare Pack – bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain rival shooter that will be hitting the UK around the same time. In …

It may have been a long time coming, but Rockstar’s LA Noire has certainly delivered the goods in this week’s UKIE Chart-Track GFK UK All Formats Top 40. The game has shot straight to No.1, becoming the fastest ever selling new games IP in the process. Sales were roughly in …

SCEJ has announced that it is to bring a number of PSP’s most successful titles to PS3. Called PSP Remaster, the games will receive a high definition makeover and, in some cases, stereoscopic 3D visuals. Some will also include additional content and extended online functionality. The games will be playable …

Codemasters’ Dirt 3, which releases tomorrow in the UK, is the latest title to see its price cut on the High Street. GAME will be selling the racer for just 4.99 to any customer who trades in a copy of Brink or LEGO Pirates of the the Caribbean on either …

The ‘PSN crisis’ is thankfully over. The service is slowly rolling back out again, more secure than ever, and consumers have been handed some free content for the inconvenience. Material effects of the actual ‘pain’ are still undefined. Obviously, PSN downtime suspended both ongoing revenues from first and third-party games …

UK retail hopes L.A. Noire can breathe new life into struggling software sales. The UK games market is down significantly year-on-year. But with Rockstar’s hyped new IP due today (Friday, May 20th), expectations are high for a May sales surge. The current levelling off in the games market hasn’t been helped …

Occaisionally, scary headlines in MCV are, I’ll be the first to admit, just that. A wild quote from a speculative pundit about the death of consoles, another throe in retail’s boom-bust-boom-bang-a-bang cycle, the unlikely story of a DIY store developing its own games… we’ve covered them all. But this week’s …

Games based on the LEGO toy brand continue to build in strength with four titles in the UK Top 40. Disney’s LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean sailed to No.2 in its debut week, pipped to the top spot by Brink. LEGO Pirates sits five places ahead of LucasArts’ LEGO Star …

Everyone’s talking about Steam, the App Store and Xbox Live, but one European publishing boss is convinced that physical retail will ‘win the war for digital’. Namco Bandai’s European VP Olivier Comte says shops have an advantage as they are the experts in talking to consumers. His comments follow recent …

Warner Interactive has announced its next title based on the popular boy wizard – LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. It’s due out this Q4 on every system you can imagine. Interesting the game has also been confirmed for Sony’s new NGP console, though whether that in any ways suggests the …