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Analyst Daniel Ernst of Hudson Square Research has predicted that following its runaway success in 2007, sale of Nintendo’s Wii will amount to more than those of Xbox 360 and PS3 combined in the next year. GameDaily reports that the firms predicts global sales for each console in 2008 to …
Read More »AUSTRALIA: Cuts made to GTAIV
Rockstar’s GTAIV may have survived its BBFC classification unscathed in this country, but the upcoming game has been cut prior to its release in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. No details have been released about what aspects of the game were removed, though the BBFC’s recent report about the …
Read More »Star Wars: Force Unleashed dated for Europe
George Lucas’s gaming arm LucasArts has confirmed that its massively hyped and much anticipated Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be released on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP and PS2 on September 19th in Europe, CVG reports. It will hit stores a few days earlier in North America on …
Read More »Microsoft: Forget HD-DVD the future is digital distribution
Speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian , UK Xbox boss Neil Thompson has insisted that his company did not back the wrong horse when it supported Toshiba and its HD-DVD high definition disc format. "The horse that we’re fundamentally backing is the one that says the future of entertainment content …
Read More »Alone in the Dark slips to June
Gamers have already faced a lengthly wait to get their hands on Atari’s latest instalment to its Alone in the Dark series – and the wait has seemingly lengthened just that bit more with the news that the game has slipped from May to June. Videogamer.com reports that the publisher …
Read More »PS3 Home public beta nearing
Home represents arguably the biggest single development in next-gen gaming, and is certainly massive news for PS3 – so it’s not surprising that talk of a public beta for the virtual world service has sent the internet into a frenzy. A poster on Sony’s US PlayStation blog has uploaded scans …
Read More »Brand new Tom Clancy IP announced
Seemingly just moments after snapping up the rights to all things Tom Clancy, Ubisoft has announced a new title branded with the anti-terror author’s moniker – HAWX. Standing for High Altitude Warfare X, the Ubisoft Bucharest developed title will, as the name suggest, bring the flight sim genre to the …
Read More »US: Dualshock 3 hits stores next week
Whilst Japanese gamers have been able to rumble along with their PS3 games since November, the Western market has to date had to make do with the rumble-less Sixaxis – but it’s all change from next week. Sony has announced via its US blog that the Dualshock 3 pad will …
Read More »JAPAN: Monster Hunter fever returns
Whilst its appeal in the West can probably still best be described as niche, the Monster Hunter series seemingly has no limits in Japan as the latest instalment has again secured best-selling status. Monster Hunter Portable 2G has already sold over a million copies in Capcom’s native Japan after just …
Read More »Lego Indiana Jones release date confirmed
Though many of the release dates to emerge from last month’s Play.com Live have proven unreliable, the date hinted for Lego Indiana Jones has been confirmed – with the title is due for release in Europe on June 6th. As per usual, the game will ship in North America on …
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