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Sega has announced that Alpha Protocol will be released on May 28th. The Obsidian-developed game will hit Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and is positioned as a spy-centric RPG. Sega’s European marketing director Gary Knight said: "Alpha Protocol offers a new take on the RPG genre, giving players the chance …

Retail giant Best Buy has announced plans to open its fourth outlet in the UK in Aintree, near Liverpool. It will open four branches in spring this year, which will showcase the latest technologies such as games, consoles and other computer electronics. The Aintree store will be situated at London …

Hot on the heels of Warner’s acquisition of Arkham Asylum developer Rocksteady, the publisher has confirmed a new game starring the Caped Crusader. Batman: The Brave and the Bold the Videogame is an action adventure title based on the cartoon TV series of the same name. It will go on …

Battlefield 3 has been in production for three years, according to ex-DICE Canada’s studio manager Fredrik Liliegren. He told Gaming Union: I know what DICE were talking about on the PC side for Battlefield 3, and they haven’t announced any of that yet, after three years.” Liliegren has previously worked …

Sega’s Vancouver 2010: The Official Video Game has returned to the Top 10 of the Xbox 360 and PS3 charts as interest grows in the current Winter Olympics. The game saw a 274 per cent rise in sales during the week ending February 20th, 2010, driven primarily by the console …

2K Games has announced it will be supporting BioShock 2 with an aggressive line-up of post-launch downloadable content. The first DLC pack – Sinclair Solutions Test Pack – will hit Xbox Live and PSN in March, and adds new characters, weapons upgrades and maps to the multiplayer mode, as well …

Platform holder Nintendo has filed a patent for portable force feedback, further adding to rumours that Nintendo is already at work on a successor to the DS. The Japanese games manufacturer made an amendment last month to a patent made in August 2005. It reads: A game apparatus includes an …

Sega’s Aliens vs Predator has taken the top spot of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 in its first week, dethroning BioShock 2 after only one week. The game is now the fastest-selling title of 2010 so far – another honour it seizes from BioShock 2, which saw sales …

Click here to access the RetailBiz Previews section for an in-depth look at some of the key releases heading to retail. This week, we take up arms for EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The long-running franchise returns to consoles once more in an aggressive bid to redefine the modern military …

THQ will release a demo of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Darksiders on February 25th. The download will offer a taste of the game, a hack ‘n’ slash adventure set on a post-apocalyptic Earth, which debuted back in January to respectable sales. It will contain the entire first …