Jul 30, 2010

It’s seems that online retailer, Buy.com was spotted listing “Hardened” and “Prestige” editions of the upcoming Call of Duty title, Black Ops and priced them at $79.99 and $149.99 respectively. The listings have since been pulled but there were no further details were included. Fans of the series will be familiar with these editions...

Jul 29, 2010

Capcom have announced the preorder bonus that will be available through Play.com, here in the UK – and it’s pretty bloody fantastic! Ordering Dead Rising 2 through Play.com will give you access to a special site that will allow you to upload your photo and “zombify” it. No, that isn’t all – you will then get to send it off to...

Jul 28, 2010

In an interview with Videogamer, Dr. Greg Zeschuk (co-founder of Bioware) has discusses sales figures, their relationship with EA as well as their previous release schedule. While some may percieve Bioware titles as achieving good sales, Zeschuk states that a sales hit for the company is selling 10 million units. Even though Bioware’s games usually hit...

Jul 28, 2010

Dutch publisher Playlogic have annouced that they have filled for ‘Surseance van betaling’ under Dutch law, which is similar to filling for Chapter 11 under US law. Surseance van betaling (translates to moratorium) is where a company is given room to sort out its own financial situation, whilst under court supervision. When a company declares...

Jul 27, 2010

Nikkei (A Japanese media corperation) have released a report which states Capcom is planning to increase the output of new entries for their most popular franchises to three or four games a year, while they currently only release two. What this means is while at the moment we may only see a new Resident Evil and a Megaman game released in a year alongside less...

Jul 26, 2010

After a slow start last week, Toy Story 3 has moved up to the top spot. Former no. 1, Crackdown 2 has made a hasty retreat down to no. 10. The only new entry this week is Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, coming in at no. 9. 1. (5) Toy Story 3 2. (4) Red Dead Redemption 3. (2) Dance on Broadway 4. (3) Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 5. (8) Tiger...

Jul 24, 2010

Argos have today released a new service for you to trade in your old games for PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS. There are of course some caveats. You can take as many games as you like but only one copy of each game, more importantly they don’t give you cash its Argos vouchers. There are some quirks in their pricing for example: PS3 Batman: Arkham...

Jul 23, 2010

I love the game Just Dance. It’s just so FUN and INNOVATIVE and CHALLENGING and - - yeah, okay. I’m lying. I can’t help it. I know that this is not impartial journalism at it’s best but seriously – I’ve played and tried to like the game (not least to find out what the feck the fuss is about) but … well, it does nothing...