Category Archives: UK

Splash Damage has announced the hiring of Marc Fascia, gameplay programmer for Enslaved at Ninja Theory.

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FIFA 12 has stayed at the top of the UK charts for a sixth straight week, eight in total, with Resident Evil: Revelations entering the top ten as a new entry.

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Sony has announced all 600 GAME and gamestation stores will have PS Vita on hand for consumers to sample in the UK.

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“I would love every company to be involved in the project. Are we going to get every company? Probably not. We are getting data that publishers and developers and IP owners themselves have. So if you’re a publisher or developer selling on Steam, those publishers and developers are giving us those sale figures. So they’re coming directly from the intellectual property owner and not from Steam.” – UKIE‘s Sam Collins, speaking to GI.Biz on the recently-announced UK digital chart, set to be introduced next month.

Sony invites you to a convivial evening of DJ-mixed tunes and face time with rows of demo units: the Vita Room. We sent Colin Gallacher to the swankiest console promotion in the UK.

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GAME’s begun a new promotion called the Fun for a Fiver offer. Concept is simple: buy a new upcoming game like Final Fantasy XIII-2, The Darkness II, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games on 3DS, Soul Calibur V or Tekken 3DS, trade it in within two weeks and you’ll only have spent a fiver in total for the game you just picked up.

MCV has more details.

Nintendo’s announced it’s to release the white and pink 3DS units on their own in the UK from February 10. The colours have only been available in hardware bundles with Nintendogs + Cats and Super Mario 3D Land up until now. No RRP was mentioned for both units in the press release.

GameStop has said its Northern Ireland closures shouldn’t have surprised anyone.

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UKIE has announced its digital chart for PC games, which has been two years in the making, will be published for the first time next month.

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Pocket Gamer’s parent organisation Steel Media’s announced this morning ex-Eurogamer editor Kristan Reed will become Pocket Gamer’s new Editor-In-Chief. Reed will overlook PocketGamer.com, as well as the trade-based PocketGamer.Biz, noting he was “looking forward to helping the team to take the Pocket Gamer sites to the next level.” Reed’s hiring comes on the back of two other hirings for PG, including ex-What Mobile writer Jonathan Morris and former Develop editor Owain Bennallack.

Congrats, Kristan!

MCV‘s reporting this morning that Nintendo UK marketing boss Dawn Paine is to leave the company.

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GameStop UK has closed all of its stores based in Northern Ireland, according to a Gaming Liberty report (via CC).

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Wadjet Eye Games is bringing its brilliant, award-winning and critically-lauded adventure, Gemini Rue, to UK retail, according to The Indie Game Magazine. The Collector’s Edition will include two other Wadjet Eye titles, which have not been named, the soundtrack and a poster. Expect it on February 10 for £19.95.

UKIE’s sold its 20% share of Gfk Chart-Track back to the company, its told MCV, but has simultaneously announced a new five-year deal that sees it as the exclusive partner of the UK charts.

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FIFA 12′s stay at the top of the UK charts continues for a fifth straight week, but Rayman Origins finally gets its due credit and enters the top ten.

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TIGA has issued a report which claims 41% of UK developers laid off between 2009 and 2011 have relocated to overseas jobs.

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UK retailer GAME has denied previous reports that its website was hacked today, following more than 200 email address and passwords being posted on Pastebin.

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FIFA 12 is head of the summit at the UK charts for a fourth straight week.

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Former Codemasters Guildford programmer, Semi Essessi, has spoken out against the firm, stating it imposed long hours without lawful breaks, and threatening former staff members “with bankruptcy” proceedings for not returning wages the firm “mistakenly” paid after shuttering the studio.

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PC and PS3 multiplayer mystery Blue Toad Murder Files has passed 500,000 paid units, Relentless head Andrew Eades said today.

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