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Sega has confirmed that its two upcoming digital releases will arrive on console next month. Both Nights Into Dreams and Sonic Adventure 2 will be released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for 6.49 and 800 Microsoft Points respectively. The Nights HD reworking will also include the rare Christmas Nights …
Read More »Arrested Bohemia devs were not scouting military base for Arma 3
Developer Bohemia has rubbished claims linking two of its developers to spying on the Greek military. MCV last week reported that Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been arrested on the Greek island of Lemnos on allegations that were collecting sensitive information about a military base. It was further claimed …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2 is Diablo with guns”. You can debate that all you like, but one thing cannot be denied – it’s the game of a bajillion” guns. That’s the official number of weapon variations available in Borderlands 2. And finding the best option out of that bajillion will be the …
Read More »Retail leaks PS3 Super Slim ahead of possible Tokyo Game Show reveal
Did you know that we might have some new hardware to celebrate by the end of the week? We’ve already seen pictures of the so-called PS3 Super Slim. MCV revealed in July that the hardware wasn’t going to be unveiled at European trade show Gamescom, and it now looks as …
Read More »City Hall to host London games art exhibition
A free to visit public exhibition of video game art will feature in the closing week of this year’s London Games Festival. It will be hosted at Mayor Boris Johnson’s City Hall and will run for five days. Rare pieces have been donated by developers, publishers and artists across a …
Read More »Borderlands 2 looks to have exceeded expectations
2K Games’ Borderlands 2 hits UK retail this Friday – and if you weren’t excited before, the early reviews of the game may well change your mind. A rudimentary appraisal of the game is that Gearbox is simply super-sizing its 2009 sleeper-hit, giving players more – well, a super-tanker-load more …
Read More »UPDATED: WipEout to be resurrected
UPDATE 1:In the moments since publication MCV has been contacted by two sources who claim that Evolution is not the new WipEout developer. We will await an official confirmation. UPDATE 2:Sony has responded with "no comment". ORIGINAL STORY: Sony is to hand over the WipEout IP to UK developer Evolution …
Read More »Dragon Age 3: Inquisition due for release in 2013
EA has announced a third game in its 8m plus selling RPG series Dragon Age. Called Dragon Age 3: Inquisition, the game is powered by EA’s Frostbite 2 engine and has been in production since 2010. "The Dragon Age team has been working on Dragon Age 3: Inquisition for almost …
Read More »Manchester is the UK’s piracy capital
The people of Manchester are mad for piracy, it would seem. New research from monitoring service Musicmetric – which monitors global BitTorrent activity – found that there was more illegal downloads per person in the city than anywhere else in the UK, the BBC reports. Nottingham came second and Southampton …
Read More »iPhone 5 registers 2m pre-orders in one day
Apple has stated that it received over two million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in its first 24 hours of availability. That’s double the one million pre-orders won by the iPhone 4S in its first 24 hours and over triple the 600,000 day one iPhone 4 pre-orders. The handset is …
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