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Online retailer Tesco Direct has launched what it describes as a ‘VAT free’ 20 per cent off sale that offers some significant savings on a range of gaming hardware. The headline saving is probably the 50 it has cut off the price of a Slim PS3 160GB, which can be …

3DS may be mere weeks away, but Nintendo certainly hasn’t forgotten its established formats. The platform holder’s latest release schedule lists some of the key new titles for Wii and DS, encompassing a mix of first-party and third party games, according to CVG. Wii highlights include Kirby’s Epic Yarn and …

Nintendo has revealed that 3DS games aimed at adult or mature markets will have slightly different packaging to other titles in Japan. The first game to carry the change will be Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell 3D, the spine of which will be black. Most DS games have a white spine on …

Nintendo’s latest Pokmon duo will be released in the UK on March 4th. The date for Pokmon Black and White means the two games will hit the High Street two days before their US debut, according to Official Nintendo Magazine. More than 2.6 million copies were sold between the titles …

Stuart Black has joined London studio City Interactive following his unexpected departure from fellow UK developer Codemasters. Black was on the lead creative team of Criterion’s 2006 FPS project, also named Black. Later he emerged at Codemasters, working on a new IP altogether – the FPS Bodycount. Develop understands that …

Nintendo’s cult gaming IP Pokemon continues to endure in Japan with news that the latest release in the series has set a new sales record for the brand. Andriasang reports that between them Pokemon White and Pokemon Black sold a massive 2,637,285 copies in their first week of release in …

Call of Duty: Black Ops will get its own line of branded peripherals after Mad Catz announced a deal with Activision today. The gaming accessories manufacturer gets global rights to a range of Black Ops products, following its range of Modern Warfare 2 controllers last year. We are honoured to …

Call of Duty developer Treyarch has stated that the idea of integrating the likes of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Natal and Sony’s PlayStation Move in future instalments of the series is one that interests it. Perhaps not for Black Ops, but Natal and Move is definitely something that we would want …

According to reports from G4, the site that broke many of the early headlines in the Activision-Infinity Ward saga, Raven Software has become the latest developer to be drafted in for work on the Call of Duty series. G4 claims that Raven, which is currently working on Activision shooter Singularity …

Claims that Singularity dev Raven Software is making map packs for FPS