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Mini-game franchise Big Beach Sports will return with a second outing for the Wii this summer, publisher THQ has revealed. The game is currently in development at Jet Black Games. Big Beach Sports 2 will feature five new outdoor games touching on more traditional sports such as rugby, cricket, disc …
Read More »Doak gets £50k for Facebook title
Two former bosses at fallen studio Free Radical have been given a 50,000 to develop a Facebook game. David Doak and Steve Ellis have both received the generous grant from a regional investment body, and will develop the Facebook title GangstaPets at their new microstudio, ZinkyZonk. Develop has the full …
Read More »The Agency is alive and kicking
Despite a prolonged period of silence, we could be hearing a lot more about Sony Online Entertainment’s The Agency in the very near future. You are going to see The Agency,” SOE president John Smedley told GameTrailers. You’re going to get something about The Agency very soon. And I mean …
Read More »EA maxing out iPad game prices
Having dropped off the radar for a few months, EA’s iPhone version of Mirror’s Edge has reportedly re-merged as an iPad-optimised title – with a an iPad-optimised price tag. TouchArcade reports that the game will carry a $14.99 price tag when it hits the App Store in conjunction with the …
Read More »New Spider-Man swinging for September
Fresh details about the exciting looking Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions have been revealed, chief amongst them is a global release window – this September. The game will see the web-slinger deal with shifting between four different dimensions, two of which have been revealed. One sees the wall-crawler set in the traditional …
Read More »JAPAN: Market drops year-on-year
Early numbers from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain claim that the Japanese market suffered a slight annual decline for the fiscal year ending March 31st. However, the dip was lower than expected at just 0.6 per cent, with the total market value hitting YEN 549,060m. A sharp 6.6 per cent decline in …
Read More »DICE: We wont charge for maps
The studio behind the successful Battlefield franchise has said that it never wants to charge gamers for post-release map DLC. We don’t ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together,” DICE’s …
Read More »GAME enters fruit & veg sector
The time for talking is over. Leading UK games retailer GAME is to, in the words of one of its leading execs, take on the supermarkets at their own game” by introducing a range of fresh food produce in some of its key UK stores. MCV can reveal that in-store …
Read More »AUS: Zombie R18+ protests return
For the second year running, hundreds of games fans have gathered in Sydney to campaign for the introduction of an R18+ age rating for video games in the country, Kotaku reports. And, much like in 2009, the masses chose to dress up like the undead and shuffle appropriately from their …
Read More »Peace Walker gets delayed
The latest instalment in the globally popular Metal Gear Solid series has seen its UK release date slip by nearly a month, Konami has stated. Speaking to CVG, the publisher stated that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will now hit UK retail on June 18th. Originally it had been penned …
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