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Having featured on BBC consumer rights programme Watchdog for a second time earlier this week, EA has moved to address concerns about FIFA 13’s alleged technical issues. Quite why the BBC has chosen to focus on EA’s game as opposed to any number of far buggier titles that are released …
Read More »EA expected a better critical reception for Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Internal company reviews at EA has predicted a far better response to Medal of Honor: Warfighter than the game eventually received. The game, which came out in the UK last Friday (Friday October 26th) currently has a 57 per cent Metacritic average on PC, 56 per cent on PS3 and …
Read More »EA responds to Konami’s FIFA allegations
Having taken a deep breath and counted to ten, EA’s football development and marketing boss Matt Bilbey has calmly responded to some heavy-handed accusations from rival Konami. PES team leader John Murphy said earlier this month that EA has stopped evolving FIFA’s gameplay. But speaking to Eurogamer, Bilbey responded with …
Read More »‘Terrific’ response from retail to Sony’s Wonderbook
Sony UK has been overwhelmed by the retail feedback to Wonderbook. Amazon told MCV that the interactive book service – which will launch with Harry Potter spin-off Book of Spells – is ‘terrific’. SCE UK’s boss Fergal Gara said that Wonderbook is the big PS3 launch of Christmas, and will …
Read More »Capcom responds to Street Fighter X Tekken DLC outcry
The upcoming DLC characters for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of Street Fighter X Tekken are included on the disc, Capcom has confirmed to MCV. However, the publisher has responded to accusations of foul play by saying that the move was necessary to ensure that all players, both …
Read More »UK Government responds to Livingstone-Hope
The UK Government hasmade public its response to the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review, which in February this year made recommendations to include computer science into the national curriculum. The statement from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes 85 distinct responses to the Livingstone-Hope report, which itself set out twenty …
Read More »Microsoft insists again: Xbox Live "has not been hacked"
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has responded to the latest claims from UK newspaper The Sun, insisting for a second time that Xbox Live has most certainly not been hacked. The assurance comes despite ongoing claims from The Sun that users have not succumb merely to a phishing scam. Indeed, …
Read More »UPDATED: MS responds to The Sun claims, says XBL "has not been hacked"
Though MCV contests that users falling for fake phishing emails are not Microsoft’s responsibility, the platform holder has responded to claims made in today’s copy of The Sun. The paper this morning reported that users of the service were being robbed by online conmen. What it failed to adequately highlight, …
Read More »Dragon Age II ‘lost some fans’
It’s a more profitable series that Mass Effect, but EA has admitted that recent RPG release Dragon Age II has "lost some fans" for the franchise. "We were clearly disappointed with some of the response from the fanbase, because we want them to be as excited about it as we …
Read More »Valve: Steam is good for retail
Jason Holtman, the chief of Valve’s digital distribution network Steam, has said that the success of the service is nothing but good news for retail. Last year MCV learnt that a number of key chains were considering a boycott of any Steam enabled games as they feared once purchased, the …
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