Activision shooter still on top; decent debut for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Call of Duty: Black Ops retains its top slot in the UK chart for the week ending December 11.
PC expansion World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the highest new entry in the top 10, making its debut at number three.
Retro Studios’ Wii platformer Donkey Kong Country Returns moves up to number eight after only reaching 13th spot in its week of release.
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Final instalment in Bioware’s sci-fi trilogy set for 2011 release.
Bioware confirmed at Saturday’s Spike VGA awards that the hotly anticipated Mass Effect 3 will be out in 2011.
While the original Mass Effect was exclusive to the Xbox 360, with its sequel still awaiting release on PlayStation 3 – it will finally hit European shelves on January 21, 2011 – EA has confirmed that the final part of Bioware’s sci-fi trilogy will release simultaneously on 360, PS3 and PC, according to IGN.
Bethesda confirms Oblivion's followup for a November 2011 release; will run on a shiny new engine.
As we reported earlier, Saturday’s Spike Video Game Awards saw a raft of new videogame announcements. Arguably the most exciting of all was Bethesda’s confirmation that a new Elder Scrolls is on the way.
New Mass Effect, Elder Scrolls, SSX, Prototype; del Toro horror game confirmed; some awards too.
It may have been an award show by name, but Saturday night’s Spike Video Game Awards was as ever more notable hosting a bout of new game announcements.
Becomes the latest UK retailer to offer trade-ins, covers postage costs itself.
Amazon has become the latest UK retailer to allow customers to ditch their unwanted games after announcing the launch of their trade-in programme today. The firm has been running a similar operation in the US since March 2009.
As Firemint prepares to release its new A$2 million budget iOS game, we ask what it takes to have the premium touch.
Developer announces Android payment model as game passes 50 million lifetime downloads.
Rovio, developer of massive-selling mobile title Angry Birds, will be introducing a simple in-app purchasing system to its game.
First bundle raised almost $1.3 million and can now be activated on Steam.
Earlier this year some 140,000 people bought the Humble Indie Bundle, and a second is now on the way, according to a post by John Graham on the Wolfire Blog.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops still number one in the UK Top Sellers Buzz chart, but Gran Turismo 5 is rising.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops has retained the top spot in this week’s UK Top Sellers Buzz chart, collecting 28,018 mentions (a drop of just over 11,500 since last week). Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has been knocked down to third place by Gran Turismo 5, whose 17,604 mentions turned the tables and beat Brotherhood’s 9532 by some margin.
Square Enix apologises, reshuffles dev team, promises improvements.
PS3 owners hoping to get their hands on Final Fantasy XIV next March will be disappointed by Square Enix’s decision to postpone its release. The company has not provided a new date, saying it will only release the game when it is satisfied with it.
Polyphony driving sim back in pole position after unseating Black Ops.
Gran Turismo 5 is back on top of the Nordic all-format software chart, which covers Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden in sales of combined SKUs, for the week ending December 5, with last week's chart-topper Call of Duty: Black Ops dropping back to second place.
Apple lists the most popular iPhone and iPad apps as well as its own favourites.
Apple has announced its year-end iTunes Rewind, a selection of lists detailing the most downloaded offerings on the US App Store. It also reveals its own apps of the year for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad.
Chris Donlan heads back into the gloom with two very different dungeon crawlers.
The company behind Kinect's 3D sensor opens up Kinect and other devices for use on different platforms.
PrimeSense, developer of the technology used in Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral for Xbox 360, has released open-source drivers for its sensor and set up a new organisation to promote Natural Interaction (NI) devices, applications and middleware.
Good news all round in the latest NPD report.
The NPD Group has released its US hardware and software sales report for November 2010.
Flying in the face of concerns that sales would be lower than last year, US shoppers spent their way to a new record. Total software and hardware retail sales for the month were $2.99 billion, a new high for the month of November, beating November 2008’s numbers by $30 million. NPD does not currently provide figures on the digital download market.
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FIFA Ultimate Team's $45m just the beginning.
EA has predicted that one fifth of its projected revenue for the current fiscal year will come from digital sales, according to CFO Eric Brown.
Brown made the revelation at UBS’s 38th Annual Media and Communications Conference in New York on Wednesday, reported by Gamespot. Digital business could bring in as much as $750 million if his projections prove correct.
We will be featuring a full expose of Naughty Dog's latest in our next issue.
Up front of a reveal at this weekend's VGAs, Naughty Dog has released a teaser trailer for Nathan Drake's latest adventure, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.
Id, Ensemble and Trilobyte veteran Graeme Devine plans to return to game development.
The man responsible for ensuring games released for Apple devices play well has left the company to return to game development, according to Kotaku.
Capcom's new Monster Hunter title behind an increase of 400 per cent.
Japanese PSP sales grew by over 400 per cent in the week to December 5, a staggering rise mostly attributed to the release of Monster Hunter Freedom 3 for the system.
As we reported on Monday, the latest installment in Capcom’s franchise was typically well-received in Japan, with the publisher claiming to have sold two million units in the game’s first week on sale.
Japanese developer working with Mistwalker on Wii RPG.
AQ Interactive is developing The Last Story for Nintendo with Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker, according to the latest in the Iwata Asks series as translated by Andriasang.
Reveals Starcraft II expansions, Diablo III and Titan releases.
Documents containing MMOG giant Blizzard’s plans for 2010 to 2014 have leaked onto the internet, detailing a release schedule containing expansions for Starcraft II, the long-awaited Diablo III and a new game, codenamed Titan.
Publisher extends its casual portfolio to Apple's mobile devices with a free app that's available from today.
EA’s bid to strengthen its reach into the social gaming sector continues to gather pace with the firm bringing its Pogo brand to Apple mobile devices, reports Bloomberg.