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Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kazuo Hirai could be in line to become Sony President, according to Bloomberg. Citing ‘people familiar with the matter’ the financial news service says that the future President would be in-line to replace Sony Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer. Sony consumer products boss Hiroshi Yoshioka is …
Read More »Rockstar campaign resurrects Red Dead fever
LOOK OUT GT5, Epic Mickey and WoW: Cataclysm. This year’s best Christmas game might be the quick-to-market sequel to one of the year’s best-selling titles. Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare hits retail tomorrow – just six months after the original topped the charts and ruled summer sales. The 25 game is …
Read More »Wii down to £119.99 at Sainsburys
Supermarket Sainsbury’s has cut 25 per cent off all Nintendo consoles. This means Wii machines will be sold for 119.99, while DSi handhelds will now set consumers back just 93.74. DSi XL has also been reduced to 108.74. However, the grocer’s offer will only run for the next 14 days. …
Read More »Black Ops smashes UK day 1 record
Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold an incredible 1.4m units over just one day in the UK, UKIE/GfK Chart-Track told MCV. That’s 58m in revenue. It marks the biggest day one performance of any game, comfortably beating last year’s Modern Warfare 2 by 14 per cent in units and …
Read More »Viacom: ‘Console game business requires skills we don’t have’
MTV Games parent Viacom says it doesn’ttheexpertise needed tocreate big-budget, successful console games. The company, which bought Harmonix for $175m and is now looking to sell them, says the ‘console game business requires an expertise and scale that we do not have.’ Viacom has revealed it will be focusing on …
Read More »Harmonix unaffected by Viacom sell-off
Rock Band developer Harmonix is still hard at work on Rock Band 3 and Dance Central despite uncertainty over its future. Owner Viacom announced this afternoon that it is looking to sell the acclaimed Boston-based studio. Harmonix is now referred to as a ‘discontinued operation,’ but its owner has offered …
Read More »Black Ops topples Modern Warfare 2 record
Call of Duty: Black Ops has made $360m in one day in the US and UK, besting sales of Modern Warfare 2. The Treyarch-developed FPS has sold 5.6m units across both North America and the UK. Almost a million more than the 4.7m units Modern Warfare 2 sold over the …
Read More »‘Steam’s dominance is bad for the industry’
As a follow-up to today’s story that UK games retailers are threatening to drop Steam-integrated video games, we are reprinting industry consultant Nicholas Lovell’s article from May this year. In his piece, originally published on Gamesbrief, Lovell discusses the five reasons why Steam will destroy the PC games industry. In …
Read More »Games missing from Sainsburys download store
Sainsbury’s says it will launch a digital download service this year – but it won’t include games. The supermarket giant’s service will begin with music, DVD and early next year, eBooks. The news follows the launch of Sainsbury’s Enertainment website, which does stock physical copies of video games. It’s being …
Read More »Play Black Ops in 3D at GAME
Gamers queuing up to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops on Monday will be able to go hands-on with the game – in 3D. The event will take place at the retailer’s Oxford Street store in London, and the title will be playable on 55 inch Samsung LED 3D TV …
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