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UK games industry trade body UKIE wants to cover 100 per cent of the digital market with its charts. The first ever PC download chart was issued earlier this month, with EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic crowned No.1 for January. The data is compiled directly from publishers and currently …
Read More »Apple App Store passes 25bn downloads
At some point in the early hours of Sunday morning the 25 billionth app was downloaded from the Apple App Store. The milestone is passed as the App Store reaches the ripe old age of three years and seven months, having launched alongside the iPhone 3G back in 2008. Since …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 will get simultaneous PSN release in UK
EA and BioWare’s sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 3 will be available to download on PSN on March 9th, MCV can confirm. Sony had previously confirmed that the game would be getting a simultaneous digital and retail release in North America, and EA has confirmed that the same will happen in …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Joshua Howard, Microsoft Flight
MCV grills executive producer Joshua Howard about Microsoft Flight’s free-to-play model and why third-party publishers are not allowed to be a part of it, as the game launches today. Previously, publishers like Just Flight and First Class Simulations have produced paid-for expansions for Flight Simulator games, but the new free-to-play …
Read More »Steam-bought EA games auto-added to Origin
It has emerged that EA’s PC download service Origin is auto-adding EA titles to gamer’s user lists that were purchased from a rival network. Specifically, Steam. Joystiq reports that users have noticed that games such as Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect 2 are automatically appearing on their Origin accounts …
Read More »RapidShare slows download speeds to deter Megaupload pirates
In what is certainly a very unusual move, online file-sharing giant RapidShare has chosen to deliberately slow its download speed for non-registered users. The site denies that this is simply a tactic to drive users to its registered, paying users. Instead, it claims the decision was made to make the …
Read More »Killzone 3 makes surprise F2P move
Sony has announced that it is to trial a new free-to-play version of popular FPS hit Killzone 3. As of next week a free download will be available on PSN for PS3 owners. It will contain the entire multiplayer portion of the game, including all the available maps. However, it …
Read More »Facebook and Twitter apps ready for Vita launch
Sony has announced that Twitter, Facebook and Flickr apps will be ready to download on Vita’s PSN Store on day one. All three apps will be free to download as soon as the Vita store goes live – which could be as early as tomorrow evening (Feb 21st). Sony adds …
Read More »MCV’s 20-page trade guide to PlayStation Vita – available now
We have put together a special magazine all about PlayStation Vita – and the 20-page guide is now available to download, read in your web browser or access via iPad. The in-depth look at Sony’s handheld – due to hit UK shelves on February 22nd – includes everything you need …
Read More »Police threatens file sharers with ten-year imprisonment
The Serious Organised Crime Agency has closed down music website RnBXclusive.com and says those who used it could be fined and imprisoned. SOCA threatened users with an ‘unlimited’ fine and up to ten years imprisonment as it claimed the music site shared files that were ‘stolen from the artists’, resulting …
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