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EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has predicted that the global install base of the PS3 will overtake Xbox 360 by the end of 2012. Using a similar method to that used by MCV at the end of October when we made the exact same prediction, Divnich points out that since May …

With this year’s Call of Duty now out in the wild, reports are once again predicting that the next iteration of the franchise will be set in the future. Industry sources say Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty will be set in the future and feature, for lack of a better term, …

After all the talk and all the hype, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect is finally on sale in the UK. Following the arrival of Sony’s Move in the UK in September, the launch of Kinect today means that the motion control revolution started by Nintendo last decade has now finally spread …

We are yet to receive any firm sales numbers for Call of Duty: Black Ops from publisher Activision, but stats from Xbox Live suggests the game is well on track to rival the records set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2. As noted by Treyarch’s community manager Josh Olin, last …

Sony has announced the extras scheduled for inclusion of the Collectors’ Edition version of LittleBigPlanet 2, which is due out on PS3 in January. The SKU will come packaged in a SteelBook case. The transparent plastic sleeve onto which the game’s logos are printed slides off to reveal a clean …

While initial consumer reaction to the Kinect appears to be positive, it is too early to ascertain whether this new concept in gaming will revolutionise the market. Its social-oriented games are designed to appeal to the new generation of casual gamers whose entry point to gaming was the Nintendo Wii. …

There can be no doubt that the launch of the Nintendo Wii was a huge step forward for the in-home gaming market. Its revolutionary motion controller-based system changed the games experience and opened up home gaming as a leisure activity to a new audience. Although there are a large number …

The first reviews for EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit are live, and it looks as if the publisher and developer Criterion has a big hit on its hands. At the time of writing the (PS3 version of the) game is averaging a very impressive 92 per cent on Metacritic. …

The CEO of Tecmo Koei has announced that he is to resign from his position at the end of November. Andriasang reports that, effective immediately, Yoichi Erikawa has become the publisher’s president and CEO. Current CEO Kenji Matsubara will remain as a director until the end of the month when …

Bookmaker Paddy Power has opened the betting on the race to be the UK’s official Christmas No.1 video game, and the early favourite is perhaps not surprisingly Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops. The company is currently offering odds of 1/6 on the game. So far it has only released …