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Ubisoft has confirmed it will host its first Gamescom press conference next month. The conference will take place at 3pm on August 15th in the Konrad-Adenauer-Saal, Congress-Centrum North. Top Ubisoft executives will be in attendance to showcase the firm’s new free-to-play titles set in some of Ubisoft’s popular franchises. The …
Read More »Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 delayed again
City Interactive’s sequel to popular shooter Sniper: Ghost Warrior has been delayed again untill 2013. This is the second delay to hit the game, which is caused by the title needing additional polish. UK Marketing the PR director Lee Kirton told Videogamer: I can confirm that this is true. We …
Read More »Transformers: Fall of Cybertron gets exclusive pre-order offers
Activision has announced three exclusive retailer pre-order offers for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. UK GAME stores will offer an unlock code for the G1 Retro Pack, which lets fans play as the G1 Optimus Prime from the 1980s cartoon in both multiplayer and single player. The pack also unlocks a …
Read More »New Xbox studio to open in London
Microsoft will open a new games studio in London, MCV can reveal. The company is hiring for senior staff to run the studio, which will sit alongside established UK teams Rare, Lionhead and the newer Soho Studios. EMEA is a key market for us and we continue to cultivate the …
Read More »Indies call for more digital cards
Independent retailers want the chance to stock a larger range of digital cards. Top High Street indies told MCV this week that they want to be able to sell the sort of digital download cards currently available in big name rival GAME. What we really want is a consignment stock …
Read More »Australia’s largest dev formed via Firemint and Iron Monkey merger
EA has announced today that it is bringing Melbourne’s two much-celebrated mobile developers,Iron MonkeyandFiremint, together. The newly created studio, bringing together over 40 employees from each studio, will be Firemonkeys which, according to EA, now constitutes Australia’s largest development studio. The pair of developers have been cohabitating for some time …
Read More »Cooking Mama Combo Packs coming to Wii and DS in USA
Majesco Entertainment will release double packs of Cooking Mama for both Nintendo’s Wii and DS consoles this August. Cooking Mama, which has sold over 13 million copies worldwide, will be re-released to US retailers in special bundle packs. Releasing on the 14th of August, Mama’s Combo Pack Volume 1 & …
Read More »Konami: London studio will keep PES ‘fresh and exciting’
Expectations are already high for Konami’s freshly-announced London PES studio. Officially confirming the studio’s opening today, a statement from the publisher says it expects the local team to ensure its football series remains ‘fresh and exciting’. PES has faced stiff competition from FIFA, after EA invested heavily in the EA …
Read More »Konami to open London studio for PES
The plan to put Pro Evolution Soccer back on top is heating up – MCV can confirm that Konami is opening a new London studio as part of its investment in the franchise. Based in London, the team will be the European wing of the Tokyo-based PES Productions which handles …
Read More »PS3 Super Slim will miss Gamescom
The PS3-4000 ‘super slim’ will not be making an appearance at Sony’s press conference during this year’s Gamescom. The unit – which is slimmer than its ‘slim’ model – will come in many SKUs, the cheapest of which is rumoured to have 16GB of flash memory. VG247broke the story confirming …
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