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Bethesda has teamed up with leading UK retailers to create exclusive pre-order incentives for its hotly anticipated new IP Dishonored. GAME, Gamestation, Tesco, ShopTo.net and Amazon will each offer different add-ons for the game, which will give players new supernatural powers, according to VG247. GAME and Gamestation is offering a …
Read More »GAME reveals 3DS XL trade-in deal
Retailer GAME has become the first to go live with its trade-in offer for Nintendo’s 3DS, which is released in the UK this Friday. Those willing to hand over their old console can buy the brand new machine for 79.99. That represents a 100 saving over buying the machine outright. …
Read More »Blizzard introducing new Diablo III limits
Diablo III players will soon have fresh limits imposed on them by developer Blizzard. At some stage in the near future” Blizzard will limit how many games a player can create within a specific, as of yet unspecified timeframe. We’ve further tuned and tested the conditions that trigger this limit …
Read More »Kid Icarus becomes Panini trading card game
Panini has bolstered its trading card game portfolio with hit Nintendo title, Kid Icarus Uprising. Over 40 million people in Europe have played the Nintendo game, with over 100,000 units already sold. There are 1.4m members on Club Nintendo and 12,000 Kid Icarus card packets sold out on the site …
Read More »GAME signs up as Eurogamer Expo partner
Former expo rivals GAME and Eurogamer have seemingly put their differences aside. One of 2011’s most interesting face-offs was the conflict between Eurogamer’s successful Expo event and GAME’s debut consumer tradeshow GAMEfest, which was tagged on to its annual manager’s conference. However, after its torrid start to the year that …
Read More »GAME Australia stores to close for good on Sunday
PriceWaterhouseCoopers has today confirmed to MCV that on Sunday the remaining GAME stores will close their doors for the last time. On 19th June, PwC had announced that the remaining stores wereslated to close, however until now no date had been set. The following day, on 20th June, PwC confirmed …
Read More »Read our guide to UK games retail in this week’s MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features our four page guide to UK games retail’s top buyers. We also interview EA Sports EVP Andrew Wilson and football legend Gianluca Vialli. The magazine is available for iPad. Download our app now, which includes access to the …
Read More »Gianluca Vialli’s on the hunt for a publisher
Football legend Gianluca Vialli and developer Geniaware are on the hunt to find a publisher for their first title, Lords of Football. The game challenges players to manage a team. But in a twist on the classic formula, users must deal with off-the-pitch activities and dramas – from training to …
Read More »Steam and Origin "will have to facilitate" digital game re-sales
Digital retailers will be forced to provide the facility for customers to re-sell their digital purchases, the boss of digital trade-in specialist Green Man Gaming believes. A ruling from the European Court of Justice yesterday said that consumers should be free to resell licensed software, whether it was purchased physically …
Read More »VIDEO: New live-action Assassin’s Creed III trailer
A brand new live-action Assassin’s Creed III trailer has been released by Ubisoft, and you can watch it right here. 18th Century North America. After more than 20 years of conflict, the 13 American colonies and the British Crown are on the brink of war,” the blurb reads. Battle lines …
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