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LEADING CASUAL games specialist Popcap is to bring its hit titles to the High Street, having signed a significant new agreement with UK value specialist Focus Multimedia. PopCap enters the retail market with a range of well-known titles including Bejeweled 2, Chuzzle and Zuma, which are set to hit shelves …
Read More »Just reveals Christmas gift range
Leading distributor Just has showcased its full range of games-related gift ideas, all of which are set to hit retail in time for Christmas. Just’s range of toys is based on some of Nintendo’s most popular franchises, including the likes of Mario Kart, Nintendogs and Pokmon. The Gacha Capsule Toy …
Read More »Square Enix: Sony needs to define PS3
Yoichi Wada, the CEO of Japanese games giant Square Enix, has claimed that Microsoft is the only current platform holder who remains dedicated to selling in the games market, that the Wii is being bought as a toy and that Sony is unsure about what its machine really is. In …
Read More »Hollywood director attacks Microsoft over HD-DVD strategy
Despite the tremendous success of recent Hollywood flick Transformers on HD-DVD, the film’s director Michael Bay has lashed out at the format, claiming that the Xbox 360 platform holder wants both Toshiba’s HD-DVD and Sony’s Blu-Ray to fail so it can grow its own digital distribution plans, Kotaku reports that …
Read More »Microsoft restricts Live downloads for non-payers
Along with all the shiny bells and whistles, and if MCV’s experience is anything to go by the far smoother UI operation, that arrived with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Autumn Update yesterday, it has also been confirmed that from now on those who are only registered for the free version of …
Read More »GAME GAMESTATION ENQUIRY
1. On 9 August 2007 the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) referred the completed acquisition of Games Station Limited (Gamestation) by Game Group PLC (GAME) to the Competition Commission (CC) for investigation and report. The reference was made under section 22 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (the Act). We are …
Read More »ESRB defends US games rating system
The governing body of the US games industry, the ESRB, has struck out at the National Institute on Media and the Family for undermining what it believes is a working, credible video games rating system in North America. Next-Gen reports that the recent release of the NIMF’s annual Video Game …
Read More »GAMEs Gamestation acquisition cleared
GAME board members will be breathing a sigh of relief this morning as the Competition Commission has – provisionally – cleared its 74 million acquisition of former rival Gamestation. GAME has released a statement saying: GAME Group plc welcomes today’s announcement of the provisional findings by the Competition Commission that …
Read More »2007 a proper gaming vintage
But I do remember hooking it all up when I first got the machine around two years ago and being a bit… underwhelmed. Project Gotham 3 and Call of Duty 2 were both fine games (I won’t mention Perfect Dark Zero). But did they smack me round the face with …
Read More »ACTIVISION BLIZZARD: Retail reacts
There has been mixed reaction to the deal by UK retail, with some stores relishing the prospect of a publishing entity with the firepower to take on EA, while others are wary of what further consolidation means for the business. Many from the front line of the industry are anticipating …
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