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Blizzard Covers Gamer Diablo III Pre-order Losses
Fans of Diablo III that pre-ordered their copy of the hotly anticipated dungeon crawler through Australia’s GAME stores, were hit with the news yesterday that they wouldn’t be receiving their reserved copy and they wouldn’t be getting a refund either. ...
GAME Australia goes into Administration
Following suit from its European cousin, GAME Australia has entered administration. While stores will remain open for the time being, all pre-orders have been cancelled and it has been announced that due to shipping issues, the chain would not be ...
Thousands of Portal 2 Maps made in Days
In just a couple of days since the release of Valve’s Portal 2 Level editor as part of the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC, fans have made over 35,000 maps, this ever expanding collection already having been downloaded some 1.3 million ...
Serious Sam HD: Second Encounter DLC Revealed
Nearly two years after its release, Serious Sam Second Encounter is set to get a DLC release, adding some new campaign missions as well as multiplayer additions. Known as Legend of the Beast, the new downloadable content sees Sam taking ...
EA Points Finger at Casual Gamers as SW:toR Leavers
Subscribers have been leaving the ill fated and incredibly expensive Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic, and EA is looking to put the blame on anyone but itself. Apparently, its the casual gamers that are leaving the Star Wars Universe, ...
Avengers: Battle for Earth Game Outed
Ubisoft is working on an Avengers movie tie in game known as Avengers: Battle for Earth, if a newly registered domain name is to be believed. The guys at Fusible spotted the initial WhoIs listing that showed the domain avengersbattleforearth.com ...
Elder Scrolls Online Coming 2013
An MMO based in the Elder Scrolls universe is set to be released sometime in 2013. Taking place 1000 years before the events of Skyrim, prince Molag Bal is attempting to incorporate Tamriel into his realm. However, Mythic isn’t the ...
Skyrim Kinect lets you Fus Ro Dah
The Xbox 360 version of Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is set to have voice commands thanks to a patch from Bethesda landing later today. All in all, there’s over 200 different phrases you can shout at your TV, making you ...
Zynga Revenue is up, but Overall loss is $85 Million
Facebook game developer Zynga has posted its Q1 earnings report, stating that earnings are up to an impressive $321 million, though overall the company suffered a loss just shy of 85.35 million. Other information released by the report revealed that ...
GAME to have Square Enix Exclusive
Headline grabbing retail chain GAME has begun to claw itself back from the brink, announcing that it has the UK launch exclusive for Square Enix’s next DS title: Heroes of Ruin. Set to be released on 15th June the advenutre ...
