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Call of Duty: Black Ops II is real, and at last MCV can discuss some of the juicier elements of the game. Firstly, as we all know by now, the game adopts a Tom Clancy style near-future setting – 2025, to be exact. This means very high-tech gadgetry based on …
Read More »VIDEO: Crysis 3 gets gameplay trailer
EA has released the first gameplay video for 2013 shooter Crysis 3. In it we see more details about the Domes that now dominate New York. 40 years on from the events of Crysis 2, New York lies in ruins and is segregated into a number of areas by large …
Read More »GAME to close Gameplay.co.uk and 35 stores
GAME will close Gameplay.co.uk next week, MCV can reveal. All that website’s customers will now be served via Gamestation.co.uk as of March 1st. The move makes sense for GAME. It acquired Gameplay back in 2004 but since then it has become a forgotten brand at the retail specialist. The site …
Read More »Brand Map: LittleBigPlanet
With the Move patch for LittleBigPlanet going live recently, GameVision looks at the ongoing success of this relatively recent IP. With our GameVision survey we asked 6,646 people about the game, of whom 657 had played it; we went on to ask 291 of these about their experience of playing …
Read More »GAME clarifies Motorstorm situation
Video games retailer GAME has issued a statement detailing the steps it is taking to enact Sony’s decision to postpone the release of PS3 racer Motorstorm Apocalypse, which was due out in the UK this Friday. To stop money being taken from the accounts of customers who had pre-ordered the …
Read More »Price war hits GAME profits
GAME has warned that its profit margins will fall more than expected this financial year as it cuts prices in the face of increased retail competition. The firm also revealed that for the 44 weeks ending December 4th, 2010, like-for-like group sales were down 8.8 per cent, while UK sales …
Read More »E3 2010: PES 2011 gameplay trailer
Konami has promised to ring the changes for the latest update to the Pro Evolution Soccer series, and if this new gameplay trailer is anything to go by then the publisher looks set to deliver on its pledge. The video shows off the game’s impressive visuals and depicts a far …
Read More »FIFA 11 reinvents player authenticity
Such was the praise heaped on last year’s version that FIFA 11 has got its work cut out trying to better it – but if nothing else EA can be assured of another storming chart success this autumn when the new title hits retail. Its headline improvement is the reinvention …
Read More »Passing overhaul leads FIFA 11 changes
The latest edition of Zoo magazine includes the first official details about one of the most anticipated games of the year – FIFA 11. As reported by CVG, EA claims to have made seismic improvements” to its football game engine. Along with the normal graphical and audio enhancements the game …
Read More »Passing overhaul leads FIFA 11 changes
The latest edition of Zoo magazine includes the first official details about one of the most anticipated games of the year – FIFA 11. As reported by CVG, EA claims to have made seismic improvements” to its football game engine. Along with the normal graphical and audio enhancements the game …
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