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Halo: Reach has only been on the shelves for a day, but it is already rewriting the series’ achievements. Bungie has announced more consumers have been playing Reach online simultaneously than 2007’s Halo 3. The developer’s Twitter post said: Reach already surpassed the all-time highest record for Halo 3 concurrent …
Read More »Heavy Rain: Move Edition dated
PS3 owners will be able to play Heavy Rain with a new Move-compatible control scheme as early as next week. Through its EU PlayStation Blog, Sony has announced a free downloadable patch that supports the motion controller will be available on September 22nd. Alternatively, those who have yet to pick …
Read More »Red Faction delayed until May
Red Faction: Armageddon will now be released in May 2011. The game was originally due in March, but has been pushed back to strengthen THQ’s next financial year. The publisher has also given release windows for some of its key core titles for the next 18 months. MX vs ATV …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Hat-trick for Mafia II
Mafia II has held on to the No.1 spot of the GfK Chart-Track All Formats chart for the third week in a row. The 2K Games title maintained its position despite a 58 per cent drop in sales. It even fended off the rapid rise of Ubisoft’s HAWX 2, which …
Read More »Jedward marketing campaign for Nintendo?
Jedward could star in a 250,000 marketing campaign for Nintendo this Christmas. The Sun is reporting that the Wii and DS manufacturer has hired the X Factor novelty act to appear in TV ads and posters that will promote Nintendo’s games in the run-up to the Yuletide season. A source …
Read More »3m sales needed for Medal of Honor sequel
Medal of Honor needs to sell at least three million copies before a sequel is commissioned. That’s according to the game’s executive producer Greg Goodrich, who told the New York Times that if the eagerly awaited FPS doesn’t meet EA’s sales expectations: I’m not going to be able to do …
Read More »Whats out today? w/e Friday, September 10th
CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S COMPREHENSIVE AND FULLY UPDATED RELEASE SCHEDULE. The industry’s momentum continues to build as a wave of hot new releases arrives on the High Street today. Perhaps the biggest release is Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, a brand new adventure that allows players to do whatever a spider …
Read More »Case Zero shatters XBLA records
Capcom has announced that Dead Rising: Case Zero has broken the record on Xbox Live for week one unit sales. The digital-only prologue to the upcoming Dead Rising 2 has seen more downloads since it launched last week than any other title posted on Microsoft’s online games service. Yesterday, Capcom …
Read More »Apple lifts game App restrictions
Apple has extended an olive branch to its army of app developers by relaxing restrictions on how games are made. The mobile devices giant says it is relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” – on the proviso that the resulting apps do not download …
Read More »Need For Speed World tops 1m users
More than one million users are playing EA’s Need For Speed World. The online-only racer went live in late July and attracted racing fans with a new MMO-style take on the Need For Speed series. EA is celebrating the game’s accomplishment by opening its content to all players. As of …
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