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Everyone may be recovering from the Modern Warfare 3 launch party, but that’s not the only game that saw retail go all out to draw in fans. Below are photos from some of the midnight openings for last month’s smash hit Batman: Arkham City. The activity was sponsored by the …
Read More »Focus Multimedia achieves record market share
UK publisher Focus Multimedia dominated the budget market in October 2011, achieving its largest ever market share in a single month. The firm accounted for 31.4 per cent of all budget PC software sales in terms of units, according to last month’s GfK Chart-Track report. By contrast, Focus’ nearest competitor …
Read More »Drawsome tablet announced for Wii
Ubisoft has unveiled a new Wii peripheral that allows players to interact with games by drawing. The Drawsome tablet features a 6.5 x 5-inch touchscreen which displays whatever the user is drawing. These scribbles can then be transferred into the game.Players will also be able to share their creations with …
Read More »XCOM reboot delayed
Take-Two has confirmed its sci-fi shooter XCOM will not be released in March 2012. Instead, the reboot of the classic 2K series will land during the publisher’s next financial year: between April 1st 2012 and March 2013. The delays was announced during Take-Two’s quarterly financial report, according to Eurogamer. The …
Read More »Activision takes to the streets for MW3 invasion
EA may be off to an explosive start with Battlefield 3 but now Activision is rolling out the big guns in retaliation. Next Tuesday (November 8th) marks the arrival of this year’s biggest game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, and Activision is mobilising its full marketing force to ensure …
Read More »120,000 join free-to-play DC Universe
Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online has received 120,000 new registrations since it went free-to-play earlier this week. The superhero MMO was first launched for with a subscription model back in January, but dropped these fees on Monday. The surge in new users for the PC version was confirmed by …
Read More »What’s Out Today? w/e November 4th, 2011
Sonic The Hedgehog returns in a title that will satisfy fans both old and new as the athletic mascot marks his 20th Anniversary. Sega’s Sonic Generations allows players to blast through each level as both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic. The former revisits the 2D side-scrolling platform action of the …
Read More »Games industry Fight Club opens
Namco Bandai and Capcom are breaking the first and second rules of Fight Club by not only talking about it, but inviting the rest of you to join in. The rival publishers have teamed up for a special charity event on December 2nd at the Namco Station in London. It …
Read More »Second-user charges are ‘less than ideal’
The schemes have their critics, but Codemasters says publishers had no choice but to introduce Online Passes. The tactic has seen software houses include one-time codes in new copies of their titles to unlock content. Pre-owned users must buy the code online to access the same content. Online Passes have …
Read More »Nintendo dominates 2011 European sales charts
Ten of the 20 best-selling games in Europe this year have been published on Nintendo formats. The platform holder revealed the top-selling games for the first nine months of 2011 in Europe, the US and Japan as part of its half-year financial results briefing. The data was taken from GfK …
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