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After what seems like a prolonged wait, Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans has released its debut title Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube. The title sees players working together to chip away at a giant Borg-like cube layer by layer, with the promise of reaching something rather special in the middle. Deep in …
Read More »Bethesda announces third Skyrim DLC – Dragonborn
A third piece of downloadable content has been announced for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. It’s called Dragonborn and will be released on December 4th. It will cost 1,600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live. A debut trailer can be seen below and suggests that the content will very much return …
Read More »Introducing the GamesAid choir!
GamesAid’s latest fundraising venture has been revealed – a UK games industry choir. The group will give its first performance at the GamesAid Christmas Concert, which takes place on Wednesday December 19th at St Stephen’s, Rosslyn Hill. Tickets cost 20 per adult and 10 for under 16s and are available …
Read More »New iPads sell 3m over the weekend
Apple has announced some impressive numbers for its two newest iPad SKUs over the weekend. Combined sales of the iPad Mini and iPad 4 – both of which were launched across 34 countries last Friday – hit 3m units over the weekend. Apple went on to point out that when …
Read More »Apple publishes new Samsung statement – but has it played another trick?
An altered version of Apple’s Samsung lawsuit acknowledgement has been published on the company’s website. On October 18th Apple was ordered by the UK courts to publish an acknowledgement of the court’s ruling that Samsung was not guilty of the patent breaches Apple had accused it of. A statement was …
Read More »HMV Oxford Street to host official COD: Black Ops II UK launch event
Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s official UK launch event will take place at HMV’s Oxford Street store next Monday (November 12th). A 1,000 strong audience is expected, all of whom will receive goody bags. Treyarch developers will be on hand to sign copies of the game and a ‘Zombie …
Read More »Halo 4 – where’s cheapest? (includes FREE deal)
The first UK High Street prices for Halo 4 have gone live in this morning’s national press. Retailer GAME will sell the game for 99p when customers trade-in any two games from its ongoing trade-in list. Supermarket Sainsbury’s, meanwhile is offering Halo 4 for just 32.99 when purchased with 2100 …
Read More »FishVille and Treasure Isle will be first Zynga games to close
Zynga has told players of FishVille and Treasure Isle that their games will be terminated on December 5th. The move comes after the publisher revealed last month that it plans to switch off 13 titles and close a number of studios as it wrestles to get to grips with its …
Read More »Cypress Hill star fails in $250m Grand Theft Auto lawsuit
Michael "Shagg" Washington has failed in effort to sue to Take-Two regarding the alleged use of his likeness in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Washington, who as well as being a model was also a backing singer for US hip-hop group Cypress Hill, had argued that that San Andreas star …
Read More »The iPad Mini is out today – did you notice?
It might surprise you to hear that Apple’s long-awaited iPad Mini was launched today. It might surprise because the launch seems to have lacked the normal level of fanfare that one has become accustomed to with the launch of new Apple hardware. TechRadar reports that just a handful of tech …
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