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Calibur11 is promoting its first UK products two months ahead of launch. The new peripherals vendor will enter the market this April with a line of interactive console shells for the Xbox 360. The firm is focusing on its Vault line-up: character-based cases that light up when the console is …
Read More »MCV Awards evolve as digital rises
Three new accolades recognising the market’s move towards digital content have been added to April’s MCV Awards. And today lobbying opens for the 2011 event, so you can be considered as a finalist. Click here to read our guide to the awards and lobbying. Digital Retail Innovation, Best Use of …
Read More »Shift 2 gets UK release date
EA has confirmed that racer Shift 2: Unleashed will be released in the UK on March 25th. It will be released in mainland Europe the day before and in North America the following week on March 29th. The publisher is also inviting punters to pre-order what the new trailer describes …
Read More »Vaizey confirms PEGI delay
The rollout of the new PEGI video games classification system will miss its current April deadline and will not be introduced until July of this year at the earliest. Back in July 2010 the VSC, who will be assuming a central role in the application of the new ratings system, …
Read More »Sega launches urinal console
It’s new hardware, but possibly not as you expected it. Former platform holder Sega has launched a new range of machines in Japan… that attach to male urinals. Wired reports that the new devices, called ‘Toylets’, have been rolled out for testing at a number of locations in Tokyo. Each …
Read More »UK CHARTS: FIFA 11 topples Black Ops
It’s a New Year and we have a new UK Number One. Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has seen its reign at the top of the listings disrupted for the second time with EA’s FIFA 11 overtaking it to claim the weekly crown. In the last week of November …
Read More »Harmonix suing owners Viacom
Harmonix founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozny are leading a lawsuit from a number of the developer’s former shareholders against current owners Viacom. It is alleged the MTV-owning company, which put Harmonix up for sale last month, is "manipulating costs" in an attempt to try and avoid bonus payments. Gamasutra …
Read More »TV product placement given the nod
Platform holders and publishers at the ready – media regulator Ofcom has announced that product placement on TV will be officially allowed from February 2011. Coming into effect on February 28th, any show carrying such advertising must carry a specific logo for a minimum of three seconds at the beginning …
Read More »Black Ops targets Xmas No.1
With just two days of selling left in Chart-Track’s current sales week, any title hoping to capture one of the year’s most coveted sales crowns has its work cut out if it wants to topple this week’s chart topper Call of Duty: Black Ops. The shooter currently sits comfortably at …
Read More »WoW Cataclysm launches worldwide
Many PC gaming fans have endured a sleepless night to be amongst the first to experience the third expansion to MMO behemoth World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, which launches worldwide today. UK gamers showed particular grit by braving freezing conditions last night to pick up the game at a number of …
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