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Having previously confirmed that it will launch a cut-price ‘Arcade’ version of its redesigned Xbox 360 S for $199 this autumn, online retailer Amazon has gone live with the first details concerning the machine. Specifically, it reckons that the console will include just 4GB of storage – presumably either internally …
Read More »Next iPad ‘to offer 360 quality graphics’
Fishlabs CEO Michael Schade has stated his belief that "iPad HD" will be released and running games at at least an equivalent standard to the Xbox 360 within a year. Talking during a session entitled Mobile becomes Console” – itself named after a recent Mark Rein comment about mobile gaming’s …
Read More »Bejeweled for $60k? No thanks
Bejeweled has in the space of ten years become one of the most popular games of all time, but pessimistic publishers previously turned down offers to buy the title even at a bargain-bin price. Gasual Gaming kingpin PopCap has sold over 50 million copies of Bejeweled since it launched in …
Read More »APB getting radical overhaul
Just days after Realtime Worlds’ ambitious open-world MMO APB finally hit UK retail, the developer has stated that it’s intending to revisit several core elements of the game. The claims follow what was a turbulent run-up to release that saw the game receive a battering from critics. Even before the …
Read More »Pre-owned app heading to iPhone
Fast-growing pre-owned games specialist Game Trading Technologies has lifted the lid on a brand new iPhone app that will allow users to monitor the price of their games collection and easily locate the nearest store where they can trade their titles in. Called GameBook Mobile, the app allows iPhone or …
Read More »New PES 2011 video
Publisher Konami has released a brand new video for PES 2011 that outlines a number of the new gameplay features that will be introduced in the next version of the cult sports franchise. Chief amongst them is customisable feints – a system that will allow users to map specific tricks …
Read More »Kane & Lynch gets early release
Publisher Square Enix has announced that it has brought forward the release date of Xbox 360, PS3 and PC action title Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days in both Europe and North America. The game will now hit UK and European retail on August 20th and will arrive in the …
Read More »Casual XBL games claim 5% of sales
Casual games cover about a third of the Xbox Live Arcade catalogue, yet their total sales make up just a fraction of the digital market. That was according to data revealed today at the fifth annual Develop Conference, where a developer of the PSN title Joe Danger bared all on …
Read More »City celebrates Sniper success
City Interactive will up shipments of its FPS, Sniper Ghost Warrior, after it broke into the Top Ten last week. The stealth FPS is City’s first major Xbox 360 and PC release, and hit shelves last Friday. It reached fifth place in the Xbox 360 games chart and tenth place …
Read More »3DS to foil the pirates
It’s a problem that has caused the DS market to collapse” and seen software sales drop by 50 per cent in Europe over recent months, but one publisher reckons Nintendo will finally thwart the pirates with its upcoming 3DS handheld. What excites me even more than 3DS games is that …
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