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Amazon App Store finally heading to the UK

Developers are being invited to submit apps for a European version of the Amazon App Store, which is scheduled to open this summer. The portal will support the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain with plans for further global expansion in the near future”. Developers will be free to choose …

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Facebook Credits consigned to the digital grave

Social network Facebook has scrapped its virtual currency Facebook Credits. The system was introduced in early 2011 as a universal currency designed to work across all of the apps and games that feature on the ever-diversifying site. However, the majority of content holders increasingly chose to ignore the system in …

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Now MS kicks off digital discount sale

Microsoft has slashed a number of full” Games On Demand titles from $20 to just $5 on Xbox Live. The discounts are universal, meaning that if any title on the list below is available on Xbox Live in your region it will have had its price cut. Here’s the complete …

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Nintendo offering "insane" incentives for digital Wii U publishers

Nintendo will offer bigger revenue cuts on digital downloads for the Wii U than other gaming platform providers, according to a report. A source working for a European developer” toldWii U Dailythat the console giant is offering insane incentives to publishers to sell on its new eShop. He said that …

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Okami HD getting exclusive PS3 release

Capcom’s visually gorgeous PS2 adventure title Okami is getting an HD makeover exclusively for PS3. The Zelda-like title sees gamers assume the role of sun goddess Amaterasu, who has inhabited the form of a wolf. The game world has been transformed into a colourless, lifeless landscape. Players then use their …

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Mike Tyson to star in WWE ’13

THQ has chosen former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson as its DLC carrot to dangle in front of customers who are considering pre-ordering WWE 13. The baddest man on the planet”, as the publisher chooses to refer to him, will be available as an exclusive playable character for those who commit …

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EA kicks off Origin sale

Hang on, don’t discount promotions "cheapen intellectual property"? 18 games have gone on sale on EA’s Origin network, with prices in some cases being cut by very nearly 90 per cent. The leading offer sees Dragon Age: Origins cut to just 5. It normally sells for 40. Other games cut …

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EA Origin’s first year "a huge success"

A year after EA first unleashed its digital download service Origin, the company’s senior VP of global e-commerce David DeMartini has christened its first 12 months as a huge success”. When you consider where we started from, which we kind of say was a standing start, we’ve got 12m downloads …

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Tesco acquires streaming music service

Supermarket giant Tesco has acquired a 91 per cent stake in Milton Keynes based streaming music service We7. Music Week reports that the deal is worth 10.8m, and that Tesco plans to buy the remainder of the company’s shares in the coming weeks”. The site, which changed from an on-demand …

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