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The launch of Microsoft’s Destination Arcade has been delayed until Wednesday, July 21st. The slip was revealed by the company’s Larry Hyrb on his Major Nelson blog, and will see the revamped interface mark the start of the latest Xbox Live promotion. Announced last week, Destination Arcade is a new …
Read More »UK games market falls 16% for H1 2010
Sales for video game software, hardware and accessories in the UK saw a decline of 16 per cent during the first half of 2010, it has been revealed today. Data from Chart-Track shows that sales made from the first 26 weeks of this year stand at 963m – a drop …
Read More »Enslaved gets Euro date
Publisher Namco Bandai has slapped an October 8th European release date for upcoming action title Enslaved. The game, which will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360, is being developed by Ninja Theory – the studio behind PS3 launch title Heavenly Sword. It’s is being co-directed by Lord of the …
Read More »FIFA 11 gets PC spec boost
EA has announced that the PC version of football title FIFA 11 will at last boast the same sort of visual fidelity as the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. Recent versions of the sports outing on PC had lagged behind their console counterparts, having been based on older versions of …
Read More »The E3 Xbox givaway
On one side politicians fiddle their expenses and ex-royals cash in on their relatives. On the other newspapers and TV channels back the party Murdoch has done a deal with, and in-between times their competitions milk us for our hard-earned money. We increasingly live in an age of consumer cynicism …
Read More »Super Star Wars for Xbox 360?
Fans of the IP have long lamented the lack of many truly great games based on the Star Wars franchise, so any suggestion of the classic Super Star Wars trilogy making a return is bound to create a tremor in the Force. Beginning with JVC’s 1992 release Super Star Wars …
Read More »The cost of Blurs poor sales
A closer look at last week’s NPD results for the North American video games market courtesy of Gamasutra has revealed that Activision’s brand new racing IP Blur sold just 31,000 units across Xbox 360 and PS3 in its first five days on the market. Other games that performed less well …
Read More »Will Kinect and Move arrive too late?
A succession of poorly-received software releases for the Nintendo Wii could have a negative impact on the success of the soon-to-be-launched Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move, according to one UK retail boss. Market results for the last two quarters have seen Wii sales severely decline,” ShopTo CEO Igor Cipolletta …
Read More »Play Crackdown 2, get Perfect Dark content
Rare has announced an interesting piece of promotional cross-IP marketing with the confirmation of a special reward for Perfect Dark players. The developer has confirmed that its recent Xbox Live release Perfect Dark already has within it a playable version of Crackdown 2’s lead character Agent 4. Anyone who next …
Read More »360 Medal of Honor beta delayed
Publisher EA has announced a second delay for the Medal of Honor beta on Xbox 360. Early access to the game on PS3 and PC has already entered Phase 2. However, with the FPS preview due to hit Xbox 360 this week, unidentified issues” have held up its arrival once …
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