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Electronic Arts’ Sports division will open a chain of bricks and mortar stores in the US. The first shop – which will house a range of EA Sports games – opens this autumn at an airport in Charlotte, North Calorina. EA Sports told Forbes it hopes to open at least …
Read More »Microsoft to pay record £178m fine
Global tech giant Microsoft is to pay a record 178m ($290m) issued by the US Supreme Court for infringing a patent. Canadian company i4i originally sued Microsoft in 2007 after discovering PC word processor program Word had infringed a patent relating to text manipulation software. Despite several appeals, the judges …
Read More »3DS eShop inspired by High Street retail
The virtual Nintendo 3DS eShop which went live last week took its design ideas from High Street stores. Designers who worked on eShop, which allows 3DS owners to purchase downloadable games such as Super Mario Land, said they wanted to create a fun shop for browsing – a place where …
Read More »ME3 Kinect targets casual gamers
Publisher EA says it added Kinect compatibility to Mass Effect 3 in order to target the large casual gamer demographic. That’s according to EA Games label president Frank Gibeau, who told Eurogamer he wants Mass Effect 3 to grow the audience and make it more accessible”. He said: We wanted …
Read More »RAGE pushed back to October
Mutant FPS RAGE has been delayed to Friday, October 7th in the UK to ensure it offers the best experience possible”. Bethesda was previously due to release the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC title on Friday, September 16th. In the US, RAGE will now arrive on Tuesday, October 4th. The …
Read More »Cliffy B: ‘We should work with hackers’
Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski has encouraged the games industry to embrace the hacking community. The Gears of War man was talking about the chances of seeing more user generated content options appearing in Gears of War 3. His comments come following the security breaches of Sony’s PSN and …
Read More »Captain America out July 15th
Captain America: Super Soldier will hit shelves next month in the UK, Sega has confirmed to MCV. The third-person action adventure game based on Marvel Entertainment’s superhero property will arrive on Friday, July 15th – two weeks before the film. Captain America: The First Avenger arrives in cinemas on Friday, …
Read More »Record traffic for PS Home
Sony’s PlayStation Home has reached all-time high user activity levels since PSN was switched back on. The PS3’s in-game social world has just reached a new milestone in terms of its amount of weekly unique users, Gamasutra reports. We’re having record traffic in Home,” said SCEA’s director for PlayStation Home …
Read More »Saints Row 3 due November
Saints Row: The Third will be released in November on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, developer Volition has confirmed. The sandbox gangster game and GTA rival will arrive in the US on November 15th and three days later in the UK on November 18th. Volition’s senior producer Greg Donovan told …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Revelations out November
Assassin’s Creed Revelations will go on sale in the UK on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 15th. It’s the fourth main console title in Ubisoft’s popular third-person action stealth franchise. The news comes following the announcement that an Assassin’s Creed game will be released for Nintendo’s newly revealed …
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