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The new super-slim PS3 is to be joined at retail by an invigorated PS3 Essentials range. A wide assortment of first and third party titles will be released at retail for around €19.99 a piece. Many of them will also be available to download from PSN with prices starting at …
Read More »City Hall to host London games art exhibition
A free to visit public exhibition of video game art will feature in the closing week of this year’s London Games Festival. It will be hosted at Mayor Boris Johnson’s City Hall and will run for five days. Rare pieces have been donated by developers, publishers and artists across a …
Read More »Wii U twin GamePad games due some time in 2013
Titles that support two Wii U GamePads simultaneously are expected to arrive in 2013. Twin GamePad functionality was missing from Nintendo’s early Wii U previews but was added in after repeated requests from press and early users. However, Nintendo’s 100+ price for individual GamePads in Japan – and the omission …
Read More »UK games retail at another all-time low as momentum falters
The UK games retail market suffered its worst week on record last week. Again. Software sales plunged 30 per cent in the week ending September 8th to just 370,443 games sold. All together this generated an all-time low revenue figure of just 7.76m. The sudden drop comes after weeks of …
Read More »NFC skipped by Wii U launch games
Nintendo’s inclusion of NFC technology in the Wii U GamePad has been skipped over by every title in the console’s launch line-up. Near Field Communication is the same technology used by London’s Oyster Card travel system that allows commuters to tap in” and tap out” of journeys. It is also …
Read More »What caused the UK games crisis?
They said it was the summer of games – but only thanks to the Olympics. If you’re a games retailer, it has been a miserable few months, with the market at times selling fewer games than ever as the release schedule dried up. What’s caused the decline? Two weeks ago …
Read More »Of course Frank Gibeau likes single player games
So Frank Gibeau does like single-player games after all. Yesterday the publisher exec seemed to dismiss non-multiplayer games by saying that he had not not green lit one game to be developed as a single player experience”. Of course, as is often the way with high-profile executives, that’s not what …
Read More »EA commits to next-gen consoles… but dismisses single player experiences
EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has promised that EA will not abandon console publishing in the hunt for social and casual success. We think EA is better positioned for success, and for serving consumers than other companies that are marooned on one platform,” he says in the brochure for the …
Read More »Answers needed to solve UK games crisis
Just what is going wrong amongst UK games retailers? A number of senior trade execs have told MCV the market slump has left them perplexed – compounded by a seeming reluctance from some corners of retail to do anything about it. In the last few week’s MCV has reported on …
Read More »UPDATED: Judgement day nears for OnLive, though it denies closure
Streaming games company OnLive has been forced to publicly deny reports that it is on the brink of closure. It started with a tweet from InXile Entertainment’s Brian Fargo, who bluntly stated that: Just received an email that OnLive is closed as of today!” This was followed by a report …
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