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Square Enix has announced that the PC Collector’s Edition version of MMO Final Fantasy XIV will be released in Europe on September 22nd. The standard SKU will hit retail on September 30th. The PS3 version of the game will not be released until March 2011, with pricing to be announced …
Read More »Rockstar triggers market Redemption
Following five months of decline, the UK games market has finally posted a year-on-year increase. The launch of Red Dead Redemption helped the UK games market post a sales rise of 12 per cent last month when compared to the same period in 2009. But unit sales were down slightly …
Read More »UK CHARTS: May 2010
The value of the UK games market rose 12 per cent year-on-year in May, boosted by a number of hugely popular multiformat releases. Take-Two’s Red Dead Redemption and EA’s 2010 FIFA World Cup drove sales last month, taking first and second places in the All Formats Top 50 respectively. It was also …
Read More »Apple issues antenna instructions
Yes, there’s a problem… Oh no, wait, there isn’t… Apple can’t quite seem to make its mind up about its official line regarding the now infamous iPhone 4 antenna issue. Now BoyGeniusReport has got its hands on Apple’s procedure documents that are given to AppleCare customer service reps tasked with …
Read More »Fable III goes episodic
Speaking at the GameHorizon Conference today, head of Microsoft Game Studios Peter Molyneux has reportedly unveiled that Fable III will be distributed in an episodic format as well as through retail. The game’s predecessor, Fable II, received an episodic digital release – though that came long after it debuted at …
Read More »Sega talks Saturn re-releases
It’s already pillaged its Master System and Mega Drive libraries and turned them into viable digital businesses and it recently announced that the Dreamcast is to receive the same treatment – but what of the Sega Saturn? It had always been presumed that the Saturn has so far missed the …
Read More »Kinect pre-orders very low
The first UK retailer to go live with what it believes will be the final RRP for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect has admitted that pre-orders for the device are very low”. Boos Igor Cipolletta told Eurogamer that he believes the 100+ price is too high” and that he thinks with …
Read More »Kotick: ‘We need UK tax breaks’
Activision has spoken out against the UK government just a week after Chancellor George Osborne dashed developers’ hopes by cancelling Labour’s promised games tax breaks. The Financial Times this evening quotes the company CEO Bobby Kotick as saying the Activision needs financial investments to keep encouraging it to invest in …
Read More »Saints Row cross compatible on 360 and 3DS
THQ has confirmed an interesting piece of functionality for its upcoming slate of Saints Row titles that will see players on the Xbox 360 unlocking content for the 3DS version of the game. Speaking of the 3DS version of the game, THQ’s core games VP Danny Bilson told Industry Gamers: …
Read More »Nintendo pushed for Saints Row 3DS
Despite long-standing doubts about the viability of mature games on the DS, it has emerged that Nintendo itself was the driving force behind the scheduling of a Saints Row title for its DS successor, the 3DS. Speaking in an interview with Industry Gamers, THQ’s core games VP Danny Bilson stated: …
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