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A number of sites have gone live with pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS, with a placeholder price of 299 having been put in place. Eurogamer spotted the listings on The Hut, WHSmith, Best Buy and Woolworths. What the site didn’t note, though, is that all of these portals are run …
Read More »James Bond is back
After a temporary hiatus that raised the possibility of Britain’s top secret agent permanently abandoning the silver screen, a new James Bond film has been officially announced by Hollywood studio MGM. The 23rd instalment in the cult movie series is currently scheduled for release worldwide on November 9th 2012. Daniel …
Read More »Sony goes legal on PS3 hackers
Mirroring the path it pursued when fighting last year’s battle against the PSJailbreak device, Sony has gone legal on at least two hackers at the heart of the current PS3 piracy drive. Kotaku reports that SCEA is seeking a temporary restraining order against both George ‘geohot’ Hotz and hacking group …
Read More »Iwata to keynote GDC
Satoru Iwata is to keynote the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco for the fourth time this year. He will deliver a session at next month’s event titled ‘Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future’. The Nintendo president’s talk coincides with the 25th anniversary of …
Read More »PlayStation iPhone app arrives
Sony’s Official PlayStation App for Apple’s iOS devices is now live and ready to download on Apple’s App Store. The free app, which is also heading to Google Android devices, was first announced last month. It allows for users to keep up to date with the latest Sony news as …
Read More »Sniper: Ghost Warrior sequel confirmed
A sequel to one of 2010’s surprise hits has been confirmed by Polish publisher City Interactive. Sniper: Ghost Warrior arrived last summer and was a surprise inclusion in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top Ten, much to the delight of the game’s distributor Mastertronic. Incidentally, it was the Huntingdon …
Read More »Can pre-owned prosper online?
Selling previously played titles online may open businesses up to a nationwide – or even worldwide – customer base, and provide an extra opportunity for making margins. However, the practice of trading games online doesn’t come without its challenges, specifically the postal aspect of such a service. There is always …
Read More »3DS games region locked?
Software for the Nintendo 3DS will be region locked in much the same way as DVDs, consumer blog VG247 is reporting. In recent years the portable market has been free of region coding, with software for both the DS and PSP being (on the whole) universally compatible across all territories. …
Read More »Online pre-owned
It was only a matter of time before Amazon’s UK website began buying and selling used games. The online retailer’s US arm has been offering the same service now for almost two years, allowing users to mail in games in exchange for credit. But now that the UK site has …
Read More »Nintendo denies DSi discontinuation
Platform holder Nintendo has denied claims that it has stopped manufacturing the DSi ahead of the launch of the 3DS over the next two months. This morning Kotaku reported that the machine was out of production in Japan, with inventory stock being all that’s left of the machine in the …
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