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North American retailer GameStop has revealed to Newsweek’s Level Up blog that 64 per cent of its first-week GTA IV allocation was sold on Xbox 360. However, in a phone conversation with Newsweek, PlayStation’s senior vice president of Marketing Peter Dille has claimed that the PS3 consumer is ‘overindexing’ on …

Thanks to some technological tinkering akin to witchcraft, we’ve just posted a wee snippet of last night’s MCV/Xbox 360 Pub Quiz – complete with winners GAME’s celebrations. There’s also a plug in there for the next event, which is set for September 10th at the industry’s favourite Pub Quiz hang …

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 for PC, PS2 and 360 is to be re-released on May 16th at a reduced price. The 360 re-issue will be priced at 24.99, whereas the PS2 version will retail for 19.99. There is currently no confirmed price for the PC edition. PES 2008 overtook FIFA …

MCV has learnt that Xbox 360 took the lion’s share of day-one sales of GTA IV – taking 55 per cent of the total 609,000 units that were sold in 24 hours. ChartTrack data shows 335,000 copies were sold on Microsoft’s machine – a new record for the console, beating …

Microsoft has cut the price of the Xbox 360 in four key Asian territories. The drop has been put into practice in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. According to Bloomberg, the price of a ‘basic version’ of the console (360 Arcade in Europe and the US) will drop …

Microsoft’s results for its third quarter show that global sales of Xbox 360 have now surpassed the 19 million mark. The overall figure represents a 74 percent increase from the same point a year ago. Microsoft said that it shipped 1.3 million consoles during the quarter compared to 500,000 the …

Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division has posted a healthy $89 million profit for its third quarter, ended March 31st. Revenues for E&DD hit $1.58 billion for the quarter – a 68 per cent jump on the $935 million reported a year previously. Operating profit income stood at $89 million – …

The first reports of illegal rips of GTA IV appearing online on Xbox 360 have started to emerge – and the game’s presence on a number of gamertags confirms that some are already getting to grips with Liberty City. Kotaku reports that a PAL rip of the title appeared on …

EA has high hopes for new release UEFA Euro 2008, labelling it the best football title the company has produced in 15 years. The licensed football franchise hits shelves today (April 18th) and despite England’s abysmal failure to qualify for the real tournament, EA is confident that the quality of …

Anticipation for Grand Theft Auto IV has reached an all-time high as Sony and Microsoft battle it out to become the console of choice for GTA fans. Certain retailers have been offering free Xbox Live points and Xbox Live membership in promotion of the 360 version of the game, whereas …