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A bug in the iPhone’s alarm settings meant that the smartphone forgot to wake users across the UK this morning, due to the software failing to update to the Daylight Savings Time switchover. The clocks went back an hour yesterday to resume standard GMT time, however what appears to be …
Read More »PopCap announces Bejeweled 3
Casual publisher PopCap has announced that it will in December release Bejeweled 3. An assortment of expansions aside, it’s the first proper sequel to 2004 hit Bejeweled 2. The Bejeweled series has sold over 50m units across the globe and has been played by an estimated 500m people for a …
Read More »Square releases voice-controlled RPG
Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix has released a brand new voice-controlled RPG for the iPhone 3G/3GS/4, iPad and latest iterations of the iPod Touch. Called Voice Fantasy, the game allows users to summon monsters simply by speaking into the device or using the recorded voices of your friends. Characters are …
Read More »US: Dance Central recalled
Publishers MTV and Microsoft have recalled all copies of Kinect title Dance Central in North America. The reason? An unspecified misprint in the owner’s manual”. Microsoft has become aware that an update that needs to be made to the product manual (i.e. printed materials) included in the game entitled Dance …
Read More »THQ steps up WWE marketing
Publisher THQ has reached an agreement with WWE that will see the company’s WWE vs Raw game promoted in conjunction with both WWE TV shows, live events and future DVD releases. 40 live WWE events will play host to game kiosks where fans can sample the latest release WWE Smackdown …
Read More »Minecraft passes 500k purchases
Indie PC hit Minecraft has passed the 500,000 purchases barrier as the one-man project continues to take the gaming world by storm. In the last 24 hours alone the game has sold nearly 10k copies. The Minecraft stats site is currently down, meaning the very latest numbers aren’t currently available. …
Read More »Xbox 360 dashboard update goes live
Microsoft’s latest revamp of the Xbox 360 dashboard is now live and available to download from Xbox Live. Online-enabled Xbox 360 owners who turn on their machine from this point will be prompted to download the new software, which amongst other things also prepares their machines for the arrival of …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Fable III dethrones Fallout
Fable III is the new UK No.1, having debuted in top position in its first week of release in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It betters the week one sales performance of its predecessor Fable II by just 6,000 copies, becoming the 13th biggest UK Xbox 360 …
Read More »Sony admits to developing smartphone product
It’s clearly not yet ready to talk openly about either the PlayStation Phone or the PSP 2, but Sony has at least gone as far as to confess that it is developing a smartphone product in correlation with Sony Ericsson. As for the new PSP product, as mentioned, I know …
Read More »MS expects critical and commercial mismatch
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has admitted that the review scores for some of its Kinect launch titles are unlikely to match the adulation given to the likes of Halo Reach – but that it won’t affect their performance at retail. For us, these are different types of titles and …
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