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The UK’s obsession with all things football continues this week with one sports sim, EA’s multi-format FIFA 08, being dislodged by another, Sega’s Football Manager 2008, at the top of the ChartTrack All Formats UK Top 40. It’s Sega’s first number one since the release of last year’s Football Manager, …
Read More »Activision backs anti-bullying initiative
Hot on the heels of the release of its kid-friendly superhero outing Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, US publisher Activision has joined forces with anti-bullying body bullying.co.uk which will promote a whole range of initiatives. Ahead of the national anti-bullying week next month, Activision will be giving away copies of the …
Read More »Violence in Games Special
About five years ago I bought my son a PlayStation console. He had received some money for his birthday and decided to buy a game. Off we went into town to a well-known music shop, where he and his sister purchased a game with a picture of a car on …
Read More »E For All attracts 18,000
The inaugural E for All show drew to a close yesterday, with organisers IDG World Expo estimating attendees to be in the region of 18,000. An audience made up of gamers, developers, retailers, and members of the media were given the opportunity to sample forthcoming games, enter tournaments and sit …
Read More »US: 360 triumphs in hardware battle
The successful release of Bungie’s hugely popular Halo 3 saw Microsoft’s Xbox 360 propelled to the top of the US hardware charts for the month of September, CVG reports. Figures from the NPD Group claim that Xbox 360 sold 528,000 units in the period, slightly above the 501,000 Wii consoles …
Read More »HD-DVD giveaway for 360 buyers
As rumours emerge that a possible new HD-DVD equipped Xbox 360 may already be in the works , Microsoft has announced that it is offering five free HD-DVD movies to anyone who buys the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive between now and the end of January. Purchasers will be able to …
Read More »Florin: We want a single open games platform
The BBC reports that EA’s executive vice president and general manager of international publishing Gerhard Florin has called for a single unified games platform, a step he says would like life better for both gamers and developers. We want an open, standard platform which is much easier than having five …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Ray Maguire, SCE UK
SONY’S PS3 strategy is the most evocative industry topic of recent times. It has inspired empassioned debate among retailers, publishers, developers and journalists – not to mention a million furious forum rows. And on Friday October 5th, Sony’s saga took another significant twist. The introduction of the stripped-down 40GB SKU, …
Read More »We can win Xmas sales race, says Sega
Sega believes that its marketing campaign for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games could help it scoop the Christmas number one. Speaking to MCV, Sega product manager Phil Lamb said: This will be a leading title at Christmas. We have fully set our sights on it being the number …
Read More »Retail event reveals its GamePlan
Reserve the date in your diaries – it seems the UK has finally come up with a retail-focused trade show that can fill the gaping hole left by the ‘old’ E3’s demise. GamePlan aims to bring together UK publishing and retail over two days on 29th– 30th May 2008 at …
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