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As part of its newly announced international expansion, Japanese developer and publisher Level 5 has stated that its long-term aim is to self-publish the critically and commercially popular DS series Professor Layton. Currently published by Nintendo in the UK, the franchise has proved a big hit in every major market …
Read More »Martinet to host Galaxy 2 launch
Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario and possibly the nicest gent in the entire global games industry, is to host Nintendo’s official UK launch event for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy 2. Taking place at GAME’s Oxford Street Store in London on the evening of Thursday June 10th, admission to …
Read More »Martinet to host Galaxy 2 launch
Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario and possibly the nicest gent in the entire global games industry, is to host Nintendo’s official UK launch event for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy 2. Taking place at GAME’s Oxford Street Store in London on the evening of Thursday June 10th, admission to …
Read More »Nintendo to drop DSi trade price
As revealed by MCV this morning, Nintendo has followed the price cuts announced for the DS in Japan earlier today by confirming that the trade price of the handheld console is Europe is also set to drop. In the UK Nintendo will be reducing the trade price of Nintendo DSi …
Read More »UK CHARTS: No moving Red Dead
Red Dead Redemption is spending its second week at the top of the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, having successfully fended off a number of new entries in the UK listings this week. Most successful amongst the contenders was UFC’s popular fighting series UFC 2010: Undisputed, …
Read More »High Street welcomes the iPad
Retailers have braced themselves for an iPad sales rush as the potentially lucrative device goes on sale in the UK for the first time today. Video games have become a major selling point for Apple’s latest touch-screen unit – with hundreds of titles available to download from the App Store …
Read More »iPad arrives in the UK
It’s been a day Apple enthusiasts have been waiting what feels like an eternity for – the iPad is now officially available in the UK, as well as much of Europe, Australia and Japan. Its arrival has been delayed following strong demand in the US that put pressure on Apple’s …
Read More »PS3 surging year-on-year
Though the UK High Street continues to struggle against what to date is proving an even more challenging sales year than 2009, Sony has pointed out that the PS3 is proving the star performer by posting strong year-on-year increases. To date in calendar 2010 sales of PS3 hardware are up …
Read More »Ubi on top in monthly charts
EA’s three-month stay at the top of the UK monthly charts is at an end as Ubisoft is declared the biggest publisher in April, according to GfK Chart-Track. It was a tough month for the UK games industry. In terms of value the market is down 22.2 per cent compared …
Read More »Gem partners with Mindscape
Distributor Gem has announced an exclusive partnership with French publisher Mindscape that will see its upcoming games distributed across the UK. The first game to be included in the deal will be Wii karaoke title U-Sing Girls Night which hits retail on June 18th. We are thrilled to be working …
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