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Upcoming brawler UFC Undisputed 2010 will exceed sales numbers of its predecessor, THQ reckons. UFC 2009 was a surprise hit at retail last year, taking the Chart-Track All Formats No.1, and has shipped more than 3.5m copies worldwide. The sales numbers don’t lie,” said THQ’s producer of UFC 2010 Neven …
Read More »Best Buy launching games mag
Having enjoyed a record-breaking start to its life in the UK, it is now being claimed that retailer Best Buy is to launch an official in-store games magazine across its chain of North American stores. The claims come from the Facebook account of Andy Eddy, as spotted by The Game …
Read More »PS3 ‘to end hardcore stigma’
Sony’s PlayStation 3 will no longer be pigeonholed a hardcore-only console, according one of the first developers building a game for the system’s new Move motion controller.Jon Torrens, designer on the upcoming Move-based title TV Superstars, joined a group of Move developers who recently spoke to Develop about their intentions …
Read More »ASA rejects Heavy Rain complaints
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected complaints about a Sony advert for recent PS3 hit Heavy Rain. The BBC reports that the objections stemmed from the depiction of a level in the game where two-sided detective Scott Shelby intervenes (or not, depending on the choices made by the player) …
Read More »Second iPhone 4 prototype surfaces
Though the discovery of a prototype version of Apple’s upcoming fourth iteration of the iPhone landed tech blog Gizmodo in legal hotwater, that doesn’t seem to have stopped a Vietnamese site (which has seemingly since been removed) publishing further pictures of the secretive device. As spotted by Engadget, the device …
Read More »EA: Modern Warfare damaged
The Modern Warfare franchise may never be the same again – that’s the claim of EA Partners boss David DeMartini who thinks that the world-conquering FPS franchise may never recover from the fallout of Activision and Infinity Ward’s disagreement. I don’t like to see that go on in our industry …
Read More »CoD: Black Ops targets Wii
There will indeed be a Wii version of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, publisher Activision has confirmed. In a brief statement released to Eurogamer, the company simply stated: Black Ops will be available on all four platforms, PS3, X360, PC and Wii, on 9th November.” Until this point Activision …
Read More »EA talks DLC codes
Outspoken EA boss John Riccitiello has sought to defend the firm’s recent efforts to reward customers who buy new copies of its games by bundling one-off DLC codes in the box. The likes of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2 have already included such codes, …
Read More »Ruse can boost struggling RTS genre
Ubisoft’s Ruse can help turn the tide for the declining real-time strategy genre, the firm has told MCV. Recent RTS titles such as Command & Conquer 4 and Napoleon: Total War failed to match the success of their series’ predecessors. Ubisoft believes its newest IP has everything it needs to …
Read More »EA monetises the Battlefield
Though some market-leading military shooters have experienced a turbulent start to 2010, the success story that is EA’s Battlefield franchise continues to power on. As part of its financial posting, the publisher revealed that console and PC outing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has sold over 5m units worldwide. Riccitiello said …
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