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3DS to be released in UK on March 25, priced at £200-£230

3DS to be released in UK on March 25, priced at £200-£230

Respected publication MCV has stated that the 3DS will be out in the UK on or around the 25th of March at a price point between £200-£230. The site says it has been 'led to believe that the 3DS... Read More

New Bond games gets the green light as movie gets announced

New Bond games gets the green light as movie gets announced

MGM studios recently announced that they will be continuing the Bond franchise, with the next installment in the long running series, featuring Daniel Craig, hitting the theaters late 2012. Wit... Read More

Square Enix “looking forward to hardware improvements in PSP2”

Square Enix “looking forward to hardware improvements in PSP2”

Square Enix producer, Takamasa Shiba, currently working on the PSP title Lord of Arcane, says he is "looking forward to hardware improvements" in the PSP2, while talking to VG247. Speaking in Tokyo... Read More

Final Fantasy X’s Yuna confirmed for Dissidia 012, Tifa gets a new costume

Final Fantasy X’s Yuna confirmed for Dissidia 012, Tifa gets a new costume

The latest issue of the Japanese gaming magazine Shonen Jump has confirmed that the Final Fantasy X character, Yuna, will be included in Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy.  A scan from the magazine sho... Read More

20 Games Exclusive to PS3 This Year You Might Want to Check Out

20 Games Exclusive to PS3 This Year You Might Want to Check Out

The Playstation Blog has made a post previewing twenty Playstation 3 exclusive games coming in 2011 and some of them are going to be must haves.  You can view the full preview right here but here i... Read More

Red Dead Redemption Latest Title Update Fixes DLC Glitches

Red Dead Redemption Latest Title Update Fixes DLC Glitches

Yesterday, if you popped in Red Dead Redemption or the Undead Nightmare Disc, you would have been prompted to download the latest of title updates.  This title update fixes a lot of stuff, most not... Read More

RUMOUR: Raven working on Call of Duty?

RUMOUR: Raven working on Call of Duty?

Raven, the developers of Singularity, are working on a Call of Duty-related project, according to a job listing found by MCV. The studio is "seeking a lead visual effects artist to drive the develop... Read More

Medal of Honor sequel in the works?

Medal of Honor sequel in the works?

Medal of Honor developers Danger Close Games have posted a job listing on their site that looks very much like they're working on a Medal of Honor sequel. Starting this month, the studio is searchi... Read More

Shogun 2 system requirements released

Shogun 2 system requirements released

Creative Assembly has released the system requirements of their upcoming RTS Total War: Shogun 2. Find the full specifications below: Minimum Specs (Required for playing Total War: Shogun 2): 2... Read More

EndGadget drops PSP Phone specs

EndGadget drops PSP Phone specs

EndGadget says it has its hands on four videos of the PlayStation Phone thanks to the Chinese website IT168, and they have dropped the full specs of the device. EndGagdet claims that it's not confi... Read More

Valve- “We see the PC as the center of innovation of everything”

Valve- “We see the PC as the center of innovation of everything”

Valve boss Gabe Newell thinks that the PC is the "center of innovation of everything that is going on" in gaming, reports Develop. While Valve has extended its development to the home consoles as we... Read More

Sony’s CES keynote speech more or less confirms a PSP Phone

Sony’s CES keynote speech more or less confirms a PSP Phone

At Sony's keynote CES speech earlier today, Kaz Hirai, PlayStation head, more or less confirmed the existence of the long-rumoured yet still unconfirmed PlayStation Phone. He said: "Sony's strategy ... Read More

THQ and Mattel Enter Multi-Year Alliance to Publish and Market Video Games

THQ and Mattel Enter Multi-Year Alliance to Publish and Market Video Games

As the title say, THQ and toys manufacturing company Mattel have entered a multi-year partnership to publish video games and market them. With this new Mattel contract, they will be developing game... Read More

PES 2011 Coming To Windows Phone 7

PES 2011 Coming To Windows Phone 7

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH just announced that their recently released Soccer sim, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, more commonly called PES 2011, will be making its way to Windows Phone 7. The ver... Read More

DanceDanceRevolution New Moves releases across Europe March 2011

DanceDanceRevolution New Moves releases across Europe March 2011

Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH announced today that they will be releasing a new game in their long running DanceDanceRevolution series, titled DanceDanceRevolution New Moves, and it will releasi... Read More

Microsoft CES Key Note Avatar Kinect

Microsoft CES Key Note Avatar Kinect

[HTML1] Now at CES 2011, Microsoft's Key Note Speech included facial recognition will be coming this spring for free as an update for all Xbox Live Gold members.  'Avatar Kinect' is explained to be ... Read More

Free Mass Effect 2 Weapon and Armor For Early Purchase on PS3

Free Mass Effect 2 Weapon and Armor For Early Purchase on PS3

Now, Bioware did the whole Cerberus Network thing if you buy the game new for the 360, with all its free content. Similarly if you buy Mass Effect 2 for PS3 on or before February 23 you'll get the ... Read More

PSN user-count climbs up to 60 million

PSN user-count climbs up to 60 million

Sony recently revealed at their CES 2011 keynote conference that 60 million users have now joined their online gaming service, PlayStation Network. Sony confirmed at last year's CES that PSN had hit... Read More

Red Dead Redemption tops GameFly charts

Red Dead Redemption tops GameFly charts

GameFly has released it's charts of the top 10 rented games of 2010, and Red Dead Redemption has topped the chart for the overall most rented game, and has also been revealed to be the most rented Xb... Read More

Microsoft Touts Success: Xbox 360 Sells 50 Million Worldwide, Kinect Sells 8 Million In 2 Months, There Are Now 30 Million Xbox LIVE Users

Microsoft Touts Success: Xbox 360 Sells 50 Million Worldwide, Kinect Sells 8 Million In 2 Months, There Are Now 30 Million Xbox LIVE Users

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has reached a historic landmark- it's become only the fifth console in history to have sold 50 million units worldwide. In the process, it has set several other records, with Kin... Read More