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February 8th can’t come soon enough for fans of Capcom’s successful hack ‘n’ slash (‘n’ shoot) action series Devil May Cry, but PS3 gamers face a costlier outlay than their Xbox 360 rivals. The PS3 version of Devil May Cry 4 looks set to retail for 49.99 in most High …

Amongst the news to emerge from EA’s latest trading statement was the confirmation that two of its key next-gen titles, Mercenaries 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company, will now arrive some time in the publisher’s fiscal 2009 year. In layman’s terms that means some time between April this year and April …

The full transcript from the conference call that followed EA’s announcement of its financial results for Q3, 2007 is now available online. The document reveals that the megapublisher believes PS3 takes longer to develop for than Xbox 360, Rock Band is to be released on Wii and that much-anticipated titles …

EA CEO John Riccitiello has admitted that the company still requires more time to develop software for PS3 than it does Xbox 360. CVG reports that, when asked if PS3’s game development has caught up with the Xbox 360’s, Riccitiello said in a conference call: "Not quite. There’s no doubt …

Electronic Arts has posted a loss for its third quarter of 2007, blaming restructuring charges and deferred revenue – but has reported record revenue for the Christmas period. The publisher suffered a net loss of $33 million for the period ended December 31st, 2007. That compared with net income of …

CVG reports that Electronic Arts has confirmed Rock Band is coming to Nintendo’s Wii. EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed the information during the question-and-answer session of the company’s third-quarter conference call, referring to the coming launch” of a Wii version of the game. Last year, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos said …

There are two prizes, the first is five copies of No More Heroes signed by the game’s legendary creator, Suda51. Also up for grabs, get this, are ten packs of No More Heroes toilet rolls, and Suda51 has left his mark on every single one. You’ll get the significance of …

Dedicated video game show GamerTV has just posted its highest ever viewing figures. Over 220,000 unique UK gamers watched the show in just one weekend on satellite and cable channel Bravo. The news follows a period of audience growth that saw the show notch up a 1.25 million viewings in …

Deep Silver parent company Koch Media has secured worldwide publishing rights to new release S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky, with the exception of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The deal represents a major coup for the firm, which recently acquired Games That Matter – a studio established by …

90 per cent of North American DS pirates are using the R4 chip to play pirated DS games, according to ELSPA. Speaking to The Sunday Post, John Hiller, manager of ELSPA’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit said: The implications are massive. In America it’s thought 90 per cent of Nintendo DS …