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Leading online reviews aggregation site Metacritic is to introduce fresh registration measures and crack down on pre-release user reviews following a spate of fanboy attacks that resulted in a number of top titles receiving disproportionately poor user reviews. At the time of writing, 3671 users had left scores for Microsoft’s …
Read More »Sony Q4 dates confirmed
Sony has finalised its Q4 release schedule for PS3 and PS2, and has set tentative dates for its PSP line-up, MCV can reveal. Joining a host of major releases on November 14th is SingStar ABBA for PS2 and PS3 and SingStar Vol 3 for PS3. The platform holder has also …
Read More »Sony celebrates PS3 Platinum range success
Sony is delighted at the success of its debut PS3 Platinum range, and the platform holder is already gearing up for its second batch of releases. The first games to receive the 19.99 Platinum treatment included first party titles Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank and Resistance Fall of Man, along with …
Read More »Universal PS3 Trophy support thrown into doubt
Despite claims that the PS3’s entire software catalogue will eventually boast support for PS3’s new Trophy system, three developers have now come out and stated that they will not be patching their existing titles. Infinity Ward has said on its forum that it has no plans to patch Call of …
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