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Sega’s Bayonetta has returned to the Top 10 of both the Xbox 360 and PS3 charts. Price promotions has seen the action title leap from No.13 to fifth place in the Xbox 360 charts since last week. More impressively, it has rocketed from No.20 to seventh place in the PS3 …

Virgin Media has relaunched its online games channel, choosing VideoGamer as its editorial partner. A new partnership between the broadcaster and VideoGamer.com’s publisher Pro-G Media will see the Virgin Media games portal populated with news, reviews, features and trailers, as well as downloadable PC games through Oberon and Metaboli. With …

Koch Media says its new game Prison Break: The Conspiracy will be a success when it arrives in March – even though the TV show it is based on finished last year. In fact the publisher says the 360, PS3 and PC title can revitalise the popular licence when it …

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view online and download now. Click here to access the RetailBiz Preview section for the definitive new guide to some of the key release due to hit the High Street soon. This week, we take a look at Square Enix’s Final …

MCV can confirm No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle will be released for Wii at the end of April. The game will be published throughout Europe by Rising Star Games, and continues the critically acclaimed series from the mind of notable developer Suda 51. The first No More Heroes game …

No matter what lengths publishers and platform holders go to when protecting their titles from illegal duplication, the proponents of piracy almost always find a workaround. From cracked and downloadable PC titles to the DS R4 cards, it’s an issue that has dogged the industry for decades and is unlikely …

Electronic Arts has announced that its Hasbro-branded titles have racked up global sales of more than eight million units within the last year. The publisher has launched 20 different Hasbro brands across 18 major platforms since the two firms formed a strategic alliance back in August 2007, including consoles – …

Crasher to launch via download on PC this year

Mindscape has announced its first internally-developed digital distribution title in the form of online vehicle battler Crasher. The game is will be released via download on PC later this year. It is the first title to be developed by the publisher’s new studio Punchers Impact, established in October 2009. Crasher …

THQ has unveiled the contents of the Limited Edition of Metro 2033 for Xbox 360 and PC. The SKU features a copy of the game with a download code for an exclusive in-game weapon – the automatic shotgun – and four art cards created by Russian painter Anton Grechko, who …