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SEGA Rally Online Arcade announced for XBL and PSN

SEGA Rally Online Arcade announced for XBL and PSN

SEGA Europe and SEGA of America announced today that SEGA Rally Online Arcade, a new HD title inspired by SEGA Rally Revo and SEGA Rally 3, will be racing onto PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE... Read More

Black Ops DLC “First Strike” Now Available on XBL

Black Ops DLC “First Strike” Now Available on XBL

The first new multiplayer downloadable content from the record-setting, best-selling blockbuster title Call of Duty: Black Ops is now available worldwide on Xbox LIVE.   Released today by Activi... Read More

Demon’s Souls “sequel” gets a new name

Demon’s Souls “sequel” gets a new name

The spiritual sequel to 2009's Demon's Souls has recently been given a new name, and shall now be called Dark Souls. The previously titled Project Dark will see more exploration, a completely new ... Read More

Armoured Core 5 set for western release

Armoured Core 5 set for western release

Courtesy of Namco Bandai it seems that western audience will see the release of Armoured Core 5 on their shores. This will be From Software's second game to see the light of day in the west this y... Read More

New Arkham City art shows influence of Hugo Strange

New Arkham City art shows influence of Hugo Strange

New artwork for the upcoming sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum shows a propaganda poster from Hugo Strange. Last December's trailer elaborated that Strange becomes aware of Batman's identity, and th... Read More

PS3 update prevents HDD upgrade

PS3 update prevents HDD upgrade

With the recent release of PS3 firmware version 3.56 many users are complaining that they are experiencing problems while trying to upgrade the console's hard disk drive. The following models are... Read More

LittleBigPlanet 2 stays on top of PS3 chart

LittleBigPlanet 2 stays on top of PS3 chart

This week's UKIE/GfK-ChartTrack PlayStation 3 chart is in and Little Big Planet 2 has held on to the top spot for its second week in a row. The rest of the chart is as follows: Top 10 (week en... Read More

The Sims 3 now available on Steam

The Sims 3 now available on Steam

As if the Sims hasn't permeated enough of our popular culture, you can now also purchase the incessantly infuriating digital doll's house sim digitally through Steam. The hard copies of the Sims 3... Read More

Sega are ‘extremely optimistic’ of NGP’s success

Sega are ‘extremely optimistic’ of NGP’s success

Sega West president Mike Hayes has stated that the company are confident in the success of Sony's new handheld, the NGP (previously known as the PSP2.) Sega were one of the few developers to showcas... Read More

Nintendo has no immediate plans for 3DS Lite

Nintendo has no immediate plans for 3DS Lite

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced that the company has no immediate intention of releasing a revised or more compact version of its upcoming handheld. The exec stated that "the first thi... Read More

Black Ops Double XP weekend for First Strike

Black Ops Double XP weekend for First Strike

Treyarch have announced that all users will receive double XP for their Black Ops matches this weekend. This double XP applies across all systems and coincides with the release of the game's first D... Read More

Homefront on PC to contain extra features

Homefront on PC to contain extra features

Homefront soon launches on Steam for PC, and Kaos Studios have recently unveiled a series of new features specific to the PC port of their upcoming FPS. Supposedly all vehicle controls will be... Read More

A Tast A Silent Hill: Downpour – The Music

A Tast A Silent Hill: Downpour – The Music

The score to the Silent Hill game is one of the most important aspects that makes them so scary.  Here is of taste of the music that will be in Silent Hill: Downpour. It is hard to live up to what... Read More

Iwata says “customers will decide” between 3DS and NGP

Iwata says “customers will decide” between 3DS and NGP

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata sits on the fence regarding the NGP vs 3DS handheld war, stating that the purchase is the customers decision. Nintendo's 3D tech is certainly intriguing but, with Son... Read More

Free Xbox Live gold weekend starts today

Free Xbox Live gold weekend starts today

For those who still haven't made the commitment to a gold account on Xbox Live, you can now enjoy the gold membership features this weekend starting at 5pm GMT. Now is the perfect time for you sil... Read More

SOCOM 4 given US release date

SOCOM 4 given US release date

Zipper Interactive's upcoming fourth addition to the SOCOM series will release in the US on APril 19th. Sony have stated that "there's no confirmed release date for SOCOM in the UK at this time." Ki... Read More

Microsoft’s Kinect is the ‘fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history’

Microsoft’s Kinect is the ‘fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history’

Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft, has stated that the Kinect motion detecting camera for Xbox 360 is the "fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history". Microsoft said ... Read More

Magicka devs working on bugs, whilst spoof infomercial trailer is released

Magicka devs working on bugs, whilst spoof infomercial trailer is released

[HTML1] Magicka developers Arrowhead Studios continue to work on the game, working on patches to fix the current online issues, adding content and implementing player requests like keyboard mapping... Read More

Release date set for TNT Racers

Release date set for TNT Racers

dtp entertainment and keen games today announce the UK release dates for TNT Racers, the great value fun and frantic arcade racing game for PlayStation3, PlayStationPortable, Xbox360 and Wii. ... Read More

Mastertronic partners with PopCap Games bringing casual games to retail

Mastertronic partners with PopCap Games bringing casual games to retail

UK publisher Mastertronic have signed a deal with worldwide casual games leader, PopCap Games, creator of record breaking game brands such as Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies. As part of ... Read More