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Nintendo hints at a Wii price cut

Nintendo hints at a Wii price cut

Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime, has suggested a price drop might be used to extend the Wii's lifecycle. Many have been anticipating a Wii 2 announcement for some time now, but N... Read More

Sony reckon that ‘phones allow more complex games than Angry Birds’

Sony reckon that ‘phones allow more complex games than Angry Birds’

Sony Ericsson's UK marketing boss, David Hilton, has argued that consumers don't want to play with "fingers all over the screen," and would rather have "the sort of interfaces you have on your games... Read More

MS defend the price of Games on Demand titles

MS defend the price of Games on Demand titles

Microsoft have defended the "relatively" high pricing of digital titles on its Xbox 360 Games on Demand service by claiming that customers are paying for the convenience of the service. Some girls s... Read More

PES 2011 to get price cut

PES 2011 to get price cut

Konami are set to re-release PES 2011 as part of the Sony's Platinum range, the Xbox Classics label and as a Euro Classics title for PC in an effort to widen the game's user base. European PES te... Read More

Square Enix Will Open New Studio In Canada To Focus On Next Generation Of Consoles

Square Enix Will Open New Studio In Canada To Focus On Next Generation Of Consoles

Although still in the final stages of deciding precisely where in Canada the studio will be based, a new Square Enix studio will open there and will focus on preparation for the next generation of... Read More

Valve Hire Designer Of Thief And System Shock

Valve Hire Designer Of Thief And System Shock

PC Design veteran Doug Church, who worked on Thief, Deus Ex and the System Shock games, has been hired by Valve. Valve's Doug Lombardi said that Church has been working with them for "a couple of we... Read More

Mass Effect 2 The Arrival DLC Release Date?

Mass Effect 2 The Arrival DLC Release Date?

The website play.tm are claiming to have info from some 'UK retail sources' regarding the release of some new Mass Effect 2 DLC. It will supposedly launch on Xbox live on the 29th of March.Read More

Fallout: New Vegas DLC To Be Released Next Week?

Fallout: New Vegas DLC To Be Released Next Week?

Quoting anonymous retail sources, play.tm are claiming that the first of two new DLC packs will be released next week and it will be titled 'Honest Hearts'. The second will be called 'Old Bones' and... Read More

Stretch Armstrong Trademarked For Computer Games

Stretch Armstrong Trademarked For Computer Games

[HTML1] Stretchy retro action figure 'Stretch Armstrong' has been trademarked by Mattel for use in a video game. Chances are the game will sync up with the slated 'Stretch Armstrong' 3D movie, due fo... Read More

Activision Vs. EA: $400 Million Infinity Ward Law Suit Given Go Ahead

Activision Vs. EA: $400 Million Infinity Ward Law Suit Given Go Ahead

A Californian Superior Court Judge has allowed a $400 million lawsuit against EA, brought on by Activision, to proceed. Jason West and Vince Zampella, the co-founders of Infinity Ward, had initia... Read More

Beyond Good And Evil HD Coming To PSN

Beyond Good And Evil HD Coming To PSN

The HD version of Beyond Good And Evil has been available to 360 users since March. PS3 owners may now rejoice that Ubisoft have confirmed the game will be coming to PSN in may. As an apology for th... Read More

Legend Of Mana Coming To PSN

Legend Of Mana Coming To PSN

Square Enix continue their run of re-releases, following the first two parasite eve games, with J-RPG 'Legend Of Mana'. Square Enix have given no definitive release date but claim the game will be o... Read More

THQ: We Don’t Want To Kill Off Used Games

THQ: We Don’t Want To Kill Off Used Games

There has been an increasing trend in gaming of titles which charge the player to access certain content if they have purchased it second hand or rented it. Some have interpreted this strategy as a ... Read More

3DS- Amazon UK’s most pre-ordered game system of all time

3DS- Amazon UK’s most pre-ordered game system of all time

Amazon UK just recently confirmed that the 3DS has become the most pre-order console at Amazon, breaking the record previously held be Sony's current gen home console, the PS3. It has been pre-orde... Read More

Dragon Quest IX ships over 5 million, becomes largest selling DQ game

Dragon Quest IX ships over 5 million, becomes largest selling DQ game

Square Enix have just announced that their handheld RPG Dragon Quest IX has shipped 5.3 million units as of December 2010, making it the largest selling Dragon Quest game ever, becoming the first ev... Read More

BAFTA Awards: Mass Effect 2 titled ‘best game’

BAFTA Awards: Mass Effect 2 titled ‘best game’

EA's last year release, Mass Effect 2 bagged yet another award at the BAFTAs. Mass Effect 2 was titled as the Best Game of 2010, like it has been at so many sites and publications, including us. So... Read More

SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs Private Beta Has Begun & Will Be Available For Everyone Soon

SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs Private Beta Has Begun & Will Be Available For Everyone Soon

The Private Beta for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs has begun.  It started on March 15th and will end on March 21st with it being an invite only beta.  People that have Playstation Plus will get acces... Read More

Olivia Munn Sits in For Kathy Lee Gifford on ‘The Today Show’ as She Moves Her Way Up

Olivia Munn Sits in For Kathy Lee Gifford on ‘The Today Show’ as She Moves Her Way Up

Olivia Munn was once our well known, cute and lovable co-host of 'Attack of the Show' on G4TV.  She has since moved on to bigger and better things trying to expand her career in show business.  We... Read More

Hitman 5 Teaser?

Hitman 5 Teaser?

Some of the folks over at Hitmanforum picked up on a mysterious, though not so subtle, image in a catalogue at the Sundance film festival: A box of doughnuts with a bar-code, already a hitman symbol, ... Read More

Australian Government Hope To Have 18+ Rating Added To Classification System By Summer

Australian Government Hope To Have 18+ Rating Added To Classification System By Summer

In Australia, any game deemed more adult or explicit than their 15+ rating is effectively banned. This has not only banned a few key titles from Australian distribution but has also required heavy edi... Read More