Category Archives: Ireland

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse has been lurking around as a downloadable title for a while now, so we’re happy to hear it is about to make the jump to retail.

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As PS3 celebrates its fourth birthday in the UK and Europe, SCEE’s bringing Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People to PSN today as its main headliner. But that’s not all.

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In what has to be the bargains of the century, UK retailer Argos is stocking the 360 version of Mass Effect 2 for the ridiculous price of £8, while Gamestop.ie (via Savygamer) has dropped its knickers as far as €6.

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Capcom’s dropped details on British and Irish pre-order goodies for Marvel Vs Capcom 3, and appears to be going in heavy with the t-shirts.

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Zynga’s confirmed it’s to open up a new office in Ireland.

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Sony has updated the European end of PSN with downloadable games Ferrari: The Race Challenge and Phantasy Star Portable 2, loads of special offers, and a sale on Modern Warfare 2 DLC.

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The European arm of PSN was updated this morning with some nice sales, a trial and unlock of Alien Breed: Impact, a R.U.S.E. demo, the Sam & Max finale, and other goodies.

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Sony updated the European end of PSN this morning with Scott Pilgrim vs The World as a downloadable game, a demo for Mafia II, and some Red Dead Redemption and Dragon Age DLC.

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Sony has updated the European end of PSN with some nice goodies for you like Earthworm Jim HD, Pong, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, the Madden NFL 11 demo, and two Harry Potter games for PSP.

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Sony has updated the European end of PSN, and along with a ton of special offers, there’s a LEGO Harry Potter demo, Everybody’s Tennis, and a free Fantasy Level for LBP.

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EA’s announced it will open a new customer service center from BioWare in Galway. As in Galway in the Republic of Ireland.

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Sony’s updated the European end of PSN, and other than a myriad of special offers and a couple permanent price reductions, there’s a quite a few things to be pleased with.

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Thanks to an update on PSN, VidZone on PS3 is now known as VidZone TV, and now hosts over 100 music TV channels.

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Sony has updated the European end of PSN, and there’s the multiplayer demo for Lost Planet 2 there, loads of games on sale, and some Uncharted 2 for ya.

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Sony as updated the European end of PSN and there are loads of deals to be found along with some permanent price reductions that will hopefully make your wallet smile.

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Namco Bandai, the UK publisher for Star Trek Online, today revealed details surrounding the game’s pre-order incentives, including being able to partake in the open beta from January 12-26.

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THQ’s handing out a custom Darksiders PS3, the publisher’s posted on the EU PS Blog.

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Microsoft has announced that Sky Player for Xbox 360 is now available to “100 percent” of the user base in UK and Ireland.

Here’s the statement:

As you may know we have been implementing a gradual rollout of the Sky Player on Xbox 360 service since our initial launch, and as of today, 100 percent of the Xbox base can access Sky Player, and tens of thousands of new users are accessing the service daily.

The quality of the service remains of the utmost importance to both Sky and Xbox, and as such we will run further testing over the weekend and continue to monitor the service closely.

Thanks, GI.biz.

Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy has proposed tax breaks for the Scottish videogame industry.

These proposals have come to light after Murphy spoke with Realtime Worlds owner Dave Jones who has threatened to take his company to Ireland should there be further lack of support for developers.

“We have had a discussion about tax breaks and ways to support the industry,” said Murphy to The Evening Telegraph. “France have introduced tax breaks and we want to talk more about that and we will listen to any strong case being made; we want to do whatever we can to help.

“Dundee is the Scottish centre of excellence in this industry. I want to be very clear about that. The games industry has a big future and Dundee has a big future to play in that, in Scotland, in the UK and wider.”

Via Develop.

Realtime Worlds studio boss Colin Macdonald has admitted that Irish tax breaks could see the Scottish studio upping sticks and going green.

The Irish government may be about to specifically target the Scottish games sector by offering developers a five-year tax holiday in return for hopping over the water.

“If the package on offer in Ireland was attractive we’d have to give it serious consideration,” said Macdonald.

“Dundee is a great place to be based, one of the main hubs for ­computer games in Britain, but at the end of the day we’ve got to look after our bottom line.”

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