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UK consumers will be able to go hands-on with Wonderbook and J.K. Rowling’s Book of Spells at HMV Oxford Street this weekend. Between Saturday, August 25th and Monday, August 27th, Sony will be taking to the stage at the back of the ground floor, with a dedicated sampling area and …
Read More »Download the Media Special issue of MCV now
The latest edition of MCV, featuring our Media Special, isnow available digitally. This week’s issue contains a 10-page examination of the games media business, looking at how magazine giants are coping with the decline of print, how online leaders are countering the rise of the ‘enthusiast press’ and how a …
Read More »Okami HD getting exclusive PS3 release
Capcom’s visually gorgeous PS2 adventure title Okami is getting an HD makeover exclusively for PS3. The Zelda-like title sees gamers assume the role of sun goddess Amaterasu, who has inhabited the form of a wolf. The game world has been transformed into a colourless, lifeless landscape. Players then use their …
Read More »Sony confirms Sports Champions 2 and DanceStar Party Hits
Sports Champions 2 and DanceStar Party Hits will be released on PS3 for PlayStation Move later this year. SC2 is a sequel to Move’s best selling title to date. It includes new events such as boxing, golf, bowling, skiing and tennis. It can support both single of twin Move controllers …
Read More »FIFA 13 promises "game-changing innovations", supports Kinect and Move
EA has outlined the ways in which it intends to build upon the fantastic success of FIFA 12 with the freshly announced FIFA 13. The game will deliver what EA describes as the most sophisticated artificial intelligence ever achieved for the FIFA franchise”, with tech being shared between both the …
Read More »Sorcery ‘will raise the bar for Move’
Sony expects its upcoming Move game Sorcery to be a flagship product for the motion accessory. The company says it raises the bar” for Move games, and has kicked off an ad campaign to get it in front of kids this summer. TV advertising will run around Cartoon Network programmes …
Read More »Sorcery to cast a spell on Move in May
Sony’s PlayStation Move-exclusive RPG Sorcery will be released on May 22nd in the US. The game was first unveiled during E3 2010 among the first line-up of titles that would use the PS3’s motion controller. It was originally due on shelves last year, but dropped off the radar. Now it …
Read More »PlayStation Move ships 10m units worldwide
More than 10m units of Sony’s motion controller have made their way to retail since it launched. The platform holder’s field developer support engineer Gabe Ahn revealed this milestone to GameInformer during this week’s Game Developers Conference in 2012. While Ahn did not give a specific sales number, he did …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet…. Kart Racing?
Canadian games retailer Future Shop has let slip the announcement of a new karting games based on Sony’s LittleBigPlanet IP. The reveal supposedly came at a North American retail event called PlayStation Destination yesterday. Nothing else is known of the game as of yet, though Future Shop also said that …
Read More »Sega officially confirms London 2012 tie-in
Deep breath – London 2012: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games has been officially announced by Sega. The game will be released in June for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It will support both Microsoft’s Kinect camera and the PlayStation Move. It will feature over 30 Olympic events …
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