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Cult Japanese shooter develop Cave has announced that 2D shooter Deathsmiles is to be released digitally on Xbox 360 in the US. This is notable because it will be the unaltered original Japanese game – the first time a foreign territories title has been released on the Games on Demand …
Read More »Ubisoft: Wii successor is ‘fantastic’
Publisher Ubisoft has become one of the first prominent publishers to publicly express its excitement for Nintendo’s still mysterious new home console. And while no specifics or tech info was divulged, Eurogamer reports that in a call to investors CEO Yves Guillemot says the HD work done for machine such …
Read More »NPD: US market soars in April
April has been a very kind month. In the UK we get glorious weather, in the US they get an excellent performance from video games at retail. The latest NPD numbers show that the month was 20 per cent up on the same period in 2010, reaching a total value …
Read More »PS3 trade-ins ‘up 200%’
Retail sources have for the first time indicated that PS3 console trade-ins have dramatically risen as the controversial PSN outage continues. In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” an unnamed store manager ‘at a major UK retailer’ told Edge. …
Read More »New Alien game from Creative Assembly
A brand new title in the Alien video game franchise has been confirmed this morning, MCV can reveal. In development at Sega owned studio Creative Assembly, at this stage it’s simply being described as an "action title". The developer has told MCV that it maintains an "open mind" about which …
Read More »Date for Sega Rally Online Arcade
Microsoft has confirmed that Sega Rally Online Arcade will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on May 18th. It will cost 800 MSP (6.85). The game, which was announced earlier this year, is a blend of the 2007 console release and the arcade cabinet version of the same name. It …
Read More »Naruto and Dragon Ball games announced
Namco Bandai has announced Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact for PSP and the ‘Dragon Ball Game Project’ for Xbox 360 and PS3. The Dragon Ball game is designed to be the ‘new landmark’ for the video game series. It is scheduled for release in Europe this autumn and will be …
Read More »Kotick: Hardware price cuts are coming
Echoing analysts predictions yesterday that Sony and Microsoft are preparing hardware price cuts, Activision boss Bobby Kotick has claimed that such a move is pending. We’ve more confidence in consumer spending," he told the Financial Times. "We feel like some of that has stabilised and there are price cuts on …
Read More »Xbox 360 update next week?
Consumer site Joystiq claims to have accessed leaked documents saying that Microsoft will begin rolling out a spring firmware update for Xbox 360 next week. Beginning May 19th, the company is apparently planning to send the update out in waves running until May 30th. The update will provide compatibility for …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 date leaked?
Activision will release Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8th worldwide. That’s according to Eurogamer, which claims to have have word from a leaked Tesco database. The date is certainly in line with previous Call of Duty releases. Although the game is understood to be Modern Warfare 3, …
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