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Super Mario Galaxy 2 gets Edge 10/10

Future’s Edge magazine has given Super Mario Galaxy 2 a notable 10/10 in its newest issue due out this week. It becomes only the 12th game to receive top marks from the famously critical multiformat mag. Fellow title Official Nintendo Magazine is due to give the game 97 per cent, …

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Activision signs Bungie

Publisher Activision has signed a ten year deal with Halo developer Bungie that grants it worldwide publishing rights to a future multiformat release. The move brings one of the most acclaimed developers into the Activision stable and is all the more notable considering the recent fall-out with super high-profile developer …

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MW2 tops Time 2009 list

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been named as the best game of 2009 by US magazine Time, which praised it for its raw, riveting military action”. Other titles to do well in the list include Eidos’ Batman: Arkham Asylum, Activision’s DJ Hero, 2K Games’ Borderlands and Nintendo’s New …

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UK CHARTS: Tiger Woods drives to the top

Fight Night Round 4 has suffered a KO after two weeks at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40, but it’s not all bad news for EA, with fellow sports sim Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 taking the fighter’s place. Tiger Woods increases its standing by one …

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Sony says 360 and Wii owners will upgrade to PS3

Andrew House, the president of SCE Europe, has suggested that owners of current consoles such as Wii and Xbox 360 will ‘upgrade’ to a PS3 in an effort to keep track of the technology offered by Sony’s machine. If you look back at previous lifecycles, like PS2 versus N64, we …

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Microsoft: We won E3

It’s not the twinning but the taking part that counts, right? Nope. How you win or lose something like E3 is hard to fathom, but the reaction to Microsoft’s conference was certainly positive – so much so that the Xbox 360 platform holder seems happy to declare victory. I think …

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83 DS titles pass a million units

Cumulative sales of Nintendo’s original DS, DS Lite and DSi have now passed the 100m units sales mark globally, the platform holder has confirmed. In addition, Nintendo claims that a massive 83 DS software titles have now exceeded 1m unit sales, and an additional seven titles have each sold in …

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The Lancer is the new Lightsaber

Aside from Epic’s recent news about its upcoming third update for Gears of War 2, all is relatively quiet in the Gears of Wars universe – but an admission from one of the game’s key writers suggests that Epic and Microsoft have plenty of Gears surprises on the way. IGN …

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Sony: PS3 is still on track

Japanese electronics giant Sony has insisted that despite the f alling annual sales of its PS3 console , it is still on track to sell ten million units by the end of its financial year March 31st. The exact year-to-date sales of the console are not known, though Sony has …

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GTA IV tops Time 2008 top ten

US news journal Time has listed its top ten picks for the games of note in 2008 – and it’s Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV that claims the top spot. Time said of the game: It’s ironic that GTA became a football in the debate over sex and violence in …

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