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Kojima attending UK launch of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
British would-be buyers of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance may want to get their collective butts to the Westfield White City GAME store in London, because Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is attending the game's official launch there on the night of February 21 - the game officially releases ...
HMV facing 66 store closures, 930 layoffs
HMV, a multimedia chain and one of the UK's top high street game retailers, is closing 66 of its 220 stores, with 930 employees losing their jobs as a result. Deloitte, the company's administrators, said the closures should occur within the next one to two months. "This step has been taken in order ...
God of War: Ascension white PS3 bundle unveiled for UK
Sony announced a God of War: Ascension PS3 bundle for British would-be deities today, featuring the sparkling-white 500GB Super Slim PS3. Unlike us American prime movers , our friends across the ocean get a tailored gold controller in their GoW: Ascension bundle, along with the special edition of ...
Namco brings more Ni no Kuni stock to the UK following sellouts
Namco Bandai assured us it's making available more, limited stock of Ni no Kuni to the UK's leading retailers this week following widespread reports of it selling out across the country. The Level-5 and Studio Ghibli PS3 game was the surprise leader of this week's UK charts, becoming the first JRPG ...
Ni no Kuni casts a spell on the UK charts
Hang on, is that a Japanese role-playing game at the top of the UK charts that doesn't have the words 'Final,' 'Fantasy,' or 'Pokémon' in its name? No, that doesn't sound right... Well, pierce me a lantern and call me Mr Drippy, because the PS3-exclusive Ni no Kuni is indeed this week's ...
Omerta: City of Gangsters brings bootlegging to UK, EU territories
Omerta: City of Gangsters dropped on Friday for PC and Xbox 360 in the UK and European territories, likely causing havoc as any good 1920s Atlantic City crime boss would. Omerta hits North America on February 12, and a Mac version is "coming soon," as the above UK trailer says. ...
Rare veteran George Andreas leaves Microsoft, joins Sony
Former Rare game director George Andreas left Microsoft earlier this month to join Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Andreas, who'd been with British developer Rare since 1996, is working as Creative Director at SCEE's London headquarters. Andreas was creatively involved with much of Rare's work ...
Black Ops 2 retakes top spot as Devil May Cry tumbles in UK charts
This week's UK charts feature a very familiar face at the summt. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the country's best-selling game of last year, is back on top for the first time in 2013 thanks to a 20 percent bump in sales from the previous week. It ain't done yet, nosiree. Despite it being a relatively ...
UK government fines Sony for 'serious' 2011 PSN breach, Sony to appeal
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has fined Sony £250,000 for the offense of having been hacked in 2011. The office called the infamous PlayStation Network hack "a serious breach of the Data Protection Act." The ICO found that the attack was preventable "if the software had been ...
Report: HMV to be saved as restructurer Hilco acquires debt
Business restructuring company Hilco is set to acquire HMV after reportedly taking control of the struggling British retailer's debt . According to the Financial Times, people familiar with the situation report Hilco took on the debt today, estimated three months ago to be around $279 million. If ...
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Call of Duty's Xbox DLC exclusivity continues with Call of Duty: Ghosts
Posted on May 21st 2013 1:55PM