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Heroes of Ruin may not be a GAME exclusive after all, Nintendo has said. GAME yesterday announced that it will be the only retailer stocking the game in the UK. However, having contacted MCV to say that no decision has yet been made, a statement issued to MCV says: Nintendo …
Read More »No Amazon UK game downloads this year
Amazon’s PC game download store has suffered a new delay, say publishers. The service is now expected to launch next year. MCV understands the service – which has been live in the US for some time – was originally due for a UK soft launch in April 2011. Publishers now …
Read More »Resi creator announces new title
ZeniMax will be the publisher of a new survival horror title from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. Currently going under the codename of Zwei, the game is being developed by Mikami’s new studio Tango Gameworks, which was acquired by ZeniMax in late 2010. Development is at an early stage, Andriasang …
Read More »Heroes of Ruin becomes GAME exclusive in UK
The GAME is well and truly on. Having yesterday announced that it had secured an exclusive Assassin’s Creed III SKU, GAME has today gone one step further by nabbing exclusive UK rights to Heroes of Ruin. The Square Enix RPG is due out on 3DS in the UK on June …
Read More »GAME gets exclusive Assassins Creed III Edition
Ubisoft is not only back in bed with GAME, but it has handed an exclusive edition of Assassins Creed III to the retailer. Called the Assassin’s Creed 3 GAME Exclusive Edition, the SKU contains an additional single player mission called ‘A Dangerous Secret’ as well as an in-game weapon – …
Read More »There’s life after GAME
An ambitious ex-GAME employee has big things planned for her local area and plans to open her own store. Vicki Life lost her job last month as store manager for the Welwyn Garden City branch. The shop was one of 277 which closed after GAME Group went into administration. Now …
Read More »Minecraft makes High Street debut
The five-million selling PC download sensation Minecraft will make its retail debut in GAME next month. Like other downloadable Xbox 360 content, such as extra maps in Halo and Call of Duty, shoppers will be able to purchase Minecraft in-store in the form of a digital download code, which they …
Read More »"Only 36% of parents check game age ratings"
A survey from Playr2.com has claimed that as many as 36 per cent of parents check the age restrictions of games their children are playing. Of that 36 per cent, 55 per cent claimed that in their opinion age restriction on games didn’t matter”. 51 per cent of the respondents …
Read More »Syndicate sales "hurt" by GAME instability
Developer Starbreeze has claimed that the recent instability at retailer GAME hurt” the sales of its recent shooter Syndicate. Syndicate was released in late February and was only temporarily stocked in the UK’s leading games retailers GAME and Gamestation following the collapse of terms with publisher EA. Although EA is …
Read More »EA re-boards the GAME train
OpCapita’s new-look, slimmed-down GAME is back in bed with EA. Like most other publishers, EA had cut ties with GAME prior to administration after failing to agree to a reduced payment proposal put forward by the then troubled retailer. SSX was the last EA title to hit GAME shelves, meaning …
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