Tag Archives: james-batchelor

Whats out today? w/e Fri August 13th

CLICK HERE FOR MCV’S FULLY UPDATED, COMPREHENSIVE RELEASE SCHEDULE. A relatively quiet week sees a handful of new releases heading to retail this week, but the High Street can still expect custom from sports fans. The biggest release of the week is EA’s Madden NFL 11, promising a ‘simpler, quicker, …

Read More »

System 3 announces Putty Squad

System 3 has announced it will be releasing a new version of Putty Squad this autumn. The classic platformer will be available for download on PSN and iTunes, with the latter version being compatible with both iPad and iPhone. Players once again take on the role of Putty, a small …

Read More »

The X Factor tracklist announced

Deep Silver has announced the full tracklist for its upcoming X Factor video game. The Koch Media publishing label has selected tracks from 28 artists and bands from around the world, covering a mix of classic acts and upcoming stars. Young X Factor fans can sing along to tunes such …

Read More »

Rising Star announces Deadly Premonition

Rising Star Games has announced it will be publishing Deadly Premonition on the Xbox 360 in PAL territories. The game will be released in the UK this autumn and follows an FBI agent, who must fend off supernatural creatures while investigating the brutal murder of a little girl. Deadly Premonition …

Read More »

Dead Rising 2 date brought forward

Dead Rising 2 will now be released in the UK on September 24th. Capcom announced today that it has brought the game’s European and Australian release forward from its original date of October 1st. The Dead Rising sequel’s release dates remain unchanged for North America and Japan, where it will …

Read More »

Gearbox reviving Duke Nukem Forever?

Duke Nukem Forever refuses to die, with fresh rumous suggesting the game’s development has been picked up by Gearbox Software. Sources have told Kotaku that the studio behind Borderlands and Brothers In Arms has picked up the project from the work started by the original developer 3D Realms – which …

Read More »

Lack of Red Faction causes THQ loss

THQ has reports losses in both sales and income for the three months ending June 30th, 2010. The publisher’s net sales fell by 39 per cent year-on-year from $243.5m to $149.4m. Sales were largely driven by UFC Undisputed 2010, just as they were driven by UFC Undisputed 2009 in the …

Read More »

HMV and Waterstones marketing teams merge

HMV Group has consolidated the marketing divisions for HMV and Waterstone’s. The two teams have been combined to form the new group marketing department, which will be led by Graham Sim in the newly-created role of group marketing director. This new structure will come into effect on Monday, August 9th …

Read More »

Kinect to recognise sign language

Reports have emerged that Microsoft’s Kinect will be able to understand American Sign Language. A new patent detailing the ‘Gesture Keyboarding’ for the new Xbox add-on suggests ASL could be used to communicate with other players online. While the patent does not specifically mention Kinect or even its previous moniker …

Read More »