Category Archives: News Wrap

Fri, Dec 30, 2011 | 09:02 GMT

Holiday Retrospective: What happened in May 2011

2011-may

The US industry hit a serious low; Sony stumbled through the new, hacktastic dawn; one of the year’s biggest games was finally revealed; and E3 excitement started to build. Let’s remember May 2011.

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Thu, Dec 29, 2011 | 08:42 GMT

Holiday Retrospective: What happened in April 2011

2011-April

There’s no getting away from it: despite several other notable occurrences, April 2011 will be remembered as the month the PlayStation Network was hacked.

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Wed, Dec 28, 2011 | 12:57 GMT

Holiday Retrospective: What happened in March 2011

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Paw over your memories of a major hardware launch, GDC, a rapidly worsening legal tussle, and the world’s most expensive natural disaster in modern gaming’s homeland.

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Tue, Dec 27, 2011 | 10:57 GMT

Holiday Retrospective: What happened in February 2011

2011-February

February was a crowded month, chock-full of financial reports and tailing off with the Japanese release of Nintendo’s 3DS. Head in for a full round-up of the month’s news.

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Sat, Dec 24, 2011 | 10:45 GMT

Holiday Retrospective: What happened in January 2011

2011-January

This year was massive for games, and was VG247′s biggest to date. Join us every day over the holiday break on a detailed journey through the year’s most important and entertaining news.

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Thu, Oct 06, 2011 | 08:49 BST

BULLETCAST, October 6 – What you need to know now

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Get caught up on the news from yesterday and overnight below.

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Tue, Oct 04, 2011 | 22:35 BST

US News Wrap, October 4 – What Happened Today

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Wow. Is the day over already? Thank “insert excited expletive here”.

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Tue, Oct 04, 2011 | 09:46 BST

BULLETCAST, October 4 – What you need to know now

ghostrecon

RAGE releases today in the US. That’s the big thing. Catch up on all the rest in video and text form after the break.

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Mon, Oct 03, 2011 | 16:35 BST

EU News Wrap, October 3 – What happened today

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Sorry, my Prada’s at the cleaners along with my hoodie and my fuck-you flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag… You better lawyer-up, asshole, ‘cause I’m not comin’ back for 30 percent, I’m comin’ back for everything. – Eduardo Saverin, The Social Network.

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Mon, Oct 03, 2011 | 09:56 BST

BULLETCAST, October 3 – What you need to know now

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Mass Effect 3′s going to have multiplayer, according to someone in South Africa. This, and more, in your handy need-to-know round-up after the break.

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Sat, Oct 01, 2011 | 22:14 BST

US News Wrap, October 1 – What Happened Today

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It’s that time again, lads and lasses: time to get wrapped up on the US shift happenings. For a weekly look at the news, have a glance at Nathan’s wrap-up here, or for a bit of fine reading, have at Mike Bowden’s piece on his dying love affair with games. The premise sort of reminds me of a Graham Greene novel, but without the adultery and depressing locales.

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Fri, Sep 30, 2011 | 22:13 BST

US News Wrap, September 30 – What Happened Today

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Many things happened today. Some nice, some not so nice. Well, you all read things on the Internet, I don’t need to tell you about it all.

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Fri, Sep 30, 2011 | 15:53 BST

EU News Wrap, September 30 – What happened today

florence

So the European news month comes to a close yet again. And what a month it has been.

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Fri, Sep 30, 2011 | 09:38 BST

BULLETCAST, September 30 – What you need to know now

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Friday. Start your slacking by catching up on this morning’s major stories in video and text form.

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Fri, Sep 30, 2011 | 07:28 BST

AU News Wrap, September 30 – What happened today

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Positive changes posited for Australian games classifications and a delightful package in the mail – it was a good day.

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Thu, Sep 29, 2011 | 22:26 BST

US News Wrap, September 29 – What Happened Today

pattismith

Lots of banner news today during my shift. Get caught up on it below, I promise I will be quick today.

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Thu, Sep 29, 2011 | 16:36 BST

EU News Wrap, September 29 – What happened today

clhsy

Hello. You may have noticed I hadn’t done this in two days. I can only sincerely apologise. Actually, I’m not going to, even though I just technically did.

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Thu, Sep 29, 2011 | 09:15 BST

BULLETCAST, September 29 – What you need to know now

syndicate

Syndicate’s out next February and Amazon’s on fire, or something. Here’s everything you need to know right now.

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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 | 02:41 GMT

AU News Wrap, September 29 – What happened today

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What didn’t happen today, amirite? You’re right: I didn’t eat anything not “cooked” in a microwave. That did not occur. Good call.

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Wed, Sep 28, 2011 | 22:05 BST

US News Wrap, September 28 – What Happened Today

ironmaiden

Lots of stuff happened today on my shift, and Johnny’s as well – even if he was too busy playing the Battlefield 3 beta to bother speaking to anyone.

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