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Japanese publisher Capcom has confirmed that the hotly tipped zombie-themed action outing Dead Rising 2 has seen its US and European release delayed. The game is now scheduled to arrive on European shelves on October 1st – a month later than was initially planned. It will hit US shelves a …

Warner Bros Interactive has finally conjured up the spot of magic needed to usurp long-term chart-topper Red Dead Redemption from the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. Rockstar’s free-roaming Western title had until this week enjoyed a five-week spell in command of the software charts. However, …

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The chances of BBC’s popular iPlayer appearing on Xbox 360 appear slimmer than ever today after Microsoft’s Senior Regional Director for Northern Europe Neil Thompson claimed that the company would have to find a way of differentiating its offer from the competition to make the proposition viable. I think the …

Publisher Namco Bandai has made some changes to its European marketing team. Marketing director David Miller has left the firm. He had worked at the company for over 18 months. His replacement is former head of PR Lee Kirton, who has been promoted to marketing and PR manager. We have …

Ubisoft is taking the chance to promote upcoming release Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood way ahead of its November 19th release date by tapping into the huge audience for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. A TV marketing campaign will debut during the USA vs Ghana second round match that kicks …

Having already achieved great popularity in the UK, the BBC’s Doctor Who Adventure Games series is to get an international release. BBC Interactive editor Iain Tweedale confirmed to Digital Spy that City of the Daleks, the first release in the gaming series, will be rolled out on third-party gaming sites” …

The growing trade in pre-owned games is the driving force behind the High Street’s struggle to combat year-on-year declines in video games sales, according to a report by analyst group Cowen and Company. The study compares the current hardware userbase of the PS3 and Xbox 360, which it claims at …

Two weeks on from the announcement of a 30 per cent workforce reduction, Linden Lab has confirmed that CEO Mark Kingdon has stepped down. He will be replaced by founder Philip Rosedale, who himself stepped down as CEO in 2008, on an interim basis. Former CFO Bob Komin has also …

Any hopes of upcoming MMO Final Fantasy XIV have seemingly been scuppered thanks to what Square Enix is calling the closed environment” Microsoft operates Xbox Live within. The main reason why we couldn’t go with Xbox 360 was the Xbox Live system,” the game’s online creator and director Hiromichi Tanaka …