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Rockstar has confirmed that it has lodged an appeal against the British Board of Film Classification’s decision to reject Manhunt 2. The company officially registered its plea with the Video Appeals Committee yesterday – as exclusively revealed by MCV earlier today. A statement from the company reads: ‘Take-Two Interactive Software, …
Read More »Rockstar finally appeals BBFCs Manhunt ban
MCV has learnt that Rockstar has lodged an official plea with the Video Appeals Committee over Manhunt 2’s ban – the UK body that has the power to overturn the British Board of Film Classification’s decision to keep the title off shelves. The publisher notified the VAC yesterday – taking …
Read More »No UK price cut for 360
The format holder has said that it has no plans to lower the price of the Xbox 360 in the UK, amongst rumours of a possible price drop in the US, reported Next Generation . We’re very happy with where were at the moment and have no plans to make …
Read More »Recordable TV coming to PS3
Sony Computer Entertainment’s head of marketing for New Zealand has confirmed that the company is looking to launch a digital tuner for the PS3 next year – effectively transforming it into a fully-functioning TV recorder. Warwick Light told NZ’s The Press newspaper: "We’re hoping next year – about the same …
Read More »MumboJumbo snaps up Hot Lava
Casual games publisher/developer MumboJumbo has acquired Russian studio Hot Lava. In the casual games space Hot Lava is best known for its work on the 7 Wonders series of games, publishedby MumbJumbo. As part of the acquisition Hot Lava CEO Matt Lichtenwalter will be come MumboJumbo’s VP of product development. …
Read More »CD Wow up for sale
Music Trading Online, trading as CD Wow, is currently seeking ‘expressions of interest’ for its assets and business. The company is selling itself as a business with a turnover of HK$500m for the year ended March 31st 2007, having appointed Borrelli Walsh as recievers. CD Wow has been trading since …
Read More »NVidia updates development tools
FX Composer 2 and PerfKit 5 now available
Read More »Games Media Awards: Nominations Close Today
Nominations for the first ever Games Media Awrds close today, so now’s the time to make sure your favourite representative of our beloved fourth estate is in the running – or, to hell with it, why not put your own name forward? The GMAs take place at London’s Soho Revue …
Read More »AUSSIE CHARTS: Party time for Mario and SingStar
Social gaming seems to be the order of the day down under this week as three of the top four best-selling titles show a penchant for partying. While Wii title Mario Party 8 tops the charts, SingStar Pop Hits comes in second, while Sony’s Eyetoy Sports bundle comes in at …
Read More »Investor pledges to turnaround Infogrames
Though it has insisted that it doesn’t intend to gain control” of the Atari owning French publisher Infogrames, investment firm BlueBay Value Recovery Fund has grown its stake of the company to 22.5 per cent. As well as its increased ownership, which includes 288,627,392 shares, the firm has also upped …
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