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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 »New iPad prices – Carphone Warehouse reveals cheapest trade-in deals
The New Apple iPad will be released in the UK on March 16th and already consumers are in a scramble to find where they can get their hands on the device and how much it will cost. The standard pricing is as follows. For the Wi-Fi machine prices start at …
Read More »Swedish gaming award’s people’s choice voting still open
Dataspelsgalan 2012 has been delayed until late March/early April, but the voting for the people’s choice award is still open. The awards will be chosen by a group of gaming journalists and gaming industry experts who are now deliberating and voting on who gets the big prizes this year. But …
Read More »3DS gets budget titles
The Nintendo 3DS will get its first 19.99 RRP boxed game this summer. And publishers say titles with ‘satisfying, attractive price-points’ is just what the handheld needs. The first is Boulderdash-XL 3D – a 3DS version of the puzzler’s XBLA revamp. This 19.99 release is due in June, courtesy of …
Read More »Single US store stocks Apple TV ahead of iPad reveal
Imminent iPad 3 announcement sees set-top box unavailable for immediate pick-up
Read More »Sony opens PlayStation Vita department in John Lewis
A PlayStation Vita showcase has opened in the Oxford Street branch of John Lewis. The pop-up booth can be found in the technology section on the department store’s fifth floor and gives shoppers the chance to sample PS Vita and PS3. Vita is a gaming revolution for consumers and retailers …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 merchandise lifts off
EA has kicked off a licensing drive for Mass Effect 3, with accessories, figures, posters and more ready to rock retail this Friday. The publisher has partnered with several licensees including BioWorld for accessories, Razer for branded games peripherals, Dark Horse for graphic novels and GB Eye for posters. There …
Read More »ShopTo.net kicks off TV ad drive
Indie retail giant ShopTo.net has kicked off a three-month promotional drive that will see the brand take to UK TV sets. The shorts, one of which can be seen below, will air during this week’s Champions League games on ITV and will lead with next week’s release Mass Effect 3. …
Read More »Don’t be too quick to write off GAME
Upon walking into a Hertfordshire Gamestation store this lunchtime, you’d be hard pressed to tell anything was afoot. Perhaps the emptiness was a surprise, though to be fair even Sainsbury’s was virtually deserted at one o’clock in the afternoon. Talk of barren shelves and suicidal staff is clearly unfounded. The …
Read More »GAME claims nearly 50% of Vita launch sales
Industry sources have told MCV that very nearly 50 per cent of all Vita hardware sold in the UK on launch week was purchased in a GAME or Gamestation store. That, of course, is despite the fact that the chains were not carrying Ubisoft’s Vita launch line-up of Rayman Origins, …
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