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Sony Discusses Pricing and Memory Cards at UK Vita Launch

Sony Discusses Pricing and Memory Cards at UK Vita Launch

Hopeful for a new day

With today's worldwide launch of PS Vita, debates about pricing, memory cards and more are now hitting home, with much interest in the early progress of the console outside of Japan. At the midnight launch at GAME's flagship store on Oxford Street, London, our friends at Eurogamer spoke to Sony Computer Entertainment UK &...

GAME Not Stocking Ubisoft Vita Launch Games

GAME Not Stocking Ubisoft Vita Launch Games

Any of them

UK high street retailer GAME will not stock any Ubisoft games at Vita's launch, VG247 has revealed. The nation's biggest specialist retailer won't be selling any of Ubisoft's games, a huge blow to the giant publisher with a reputation for emphatic day-one support of new hardware. That means GAME customers won't be able to pick up the...

UFC Dropkicks Amalur from the Top of the UK Charts

UFC Dropkicks Amalur from the Top of the UK Charts

Not pretty

UFC Undisputed 3 has fought its way to the top of the UK sales charts, beating out last week’s frontrunner, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, to claim the coveted spot. The EA Partners published RPG actually fell from the top ten completely, finishing up in 12th, and allowing faithful favourites such as FIFA 12, Call of Duty: Modern...

Eurogamer Expo Tickets Up for Grabs Next Week

Eurogamer Expo Tickets Up for Grabs Next Week

Fingers at the ready

Tickets for Eurogamer Expo — the biggest video games show in the UK — go on sale next week. The four-day show in London's Earls Court runs from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th September, and comes with a new partner: Virgin Media. The broadband provider will be "powering" the show, and Virgin Media customers can get...

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Storms the UK Charts

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Storms the UK Charts

Sitting pretty

The EA Partners published Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has rushed straight to the top of the UK charts this week, beating out tough competition from the gruesome Darkness II and last week’s champ, Final Fantasy XIII-2. According to Chart Track data, it’s the first new RPG series to debut at number one since Pokemon Red nearly 12...

Feature: The Push Square Launch Party

The Push Square Launch Party

Rockin' in the free world

To celebrate the triumphant relaunch of Push Square last week, our team got together in Nottingham's swanky Broadway Cinema lounge to play lots of games and share a few well-earned beers. Our UK team whiled away the night revisiting classic games. Virtua Tennis and Power Stone 2 on Dreamcast got a lot of love, with...

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Hits Top of UK Charts

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Hits Top of UK Charts

Snake sits in second

Square Enix's latest RPG epic has shot to the top of the UK all-formats charts. Final Fantasy XIII-2 grabbed the number one slot in its first week on sale, nudging Metal Gear Solid HD Collection into second place. The other big release of last week, Namco Bandai's SoulCalibur V, lived up to its title by landing in fifth. The...

Amazon UK Upgrading PlayStation Vita Orders

Amazon UK Upgrading PlayStation Vita Orders

Announces new bundle too

If you thought North America was getting all the luck with regards to PlayStation Vita bundles, then you might like to take a note of an email we just received from Amazon.co.uk this morning. According to the message, the online retailer is upgrading all PlayStation Vita pre-orders to include a free 8GB memory card and a...

Sony: "Our Studios Know They Have to Do Better with Move"

Sony: "Our Studios Know They Have to Do Better with Move"

UK boss lays it out

Sony Computer Entertainment UK boss Fergal Gara has told MCV that its internal studios have to create better Move titles. Gara revealed that Sports Champions has been the biggest seller but that other titles have put in vastly differing sales performances. Gara went on to say that it's a priority for internal studios to do...

Sony Details UK PlayStation Vita Pre-Order Offer

Sony Details UK PlayStation Vita Pre-Order Offer

Here's what you get

If you haven't put your pound sterling down for a PlayStation Vita, here's what's on offer if you pre-order at select retailers. Get your pre-order in now to get some Vita-branded in-ear headphones, money off a selected Vita game download, PS Vita-related items for your PlayStation Home avatar, early access to Frobisher Says! and...

Sony Brings Vita On Tour Around the UK

Sony Brings Vita On Tour Around the UK

Get on board

Sony's Vita Rooms will be touring the United Kingdom in 2012, letting you get hands on with Vita before its 22nd February release. It all kicks off in Manchester on 13th January before taking in Glasgow, Birmingham and London. For more details check out PlayStation Access. PlayStation Brings Portable Gaming to Your Doorstep PlayStation...

The PlayStation Move Interactive Advert in Full

The PlayStation Move Interactive Advert in Full

Take your pick

Remember when we reported on the PlayStation Move mini site with its interactive advertisement? We've just been made aware the full video is available to view right now on YouTube or — more helpfully — right below these very words. With PlayStation Move sales catching up with Kinect do you think adverts below are the way to go or...

Win a PlayStation 3 with Move in PQube Competition

Win a PlayStation 3 with Move in PQube Competition

It could be you

With Christmas just around the corner, a PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Move would be an ideal gift for most people. But while it's better to give than to receive, it's even better to win, so it's a good job UK publisher PQube has revealed its Christmas competition. If you want to win a PS3 and PS Move for Christmas then simply submit...

UK Vita News Due Later Today

UK Vita News Due Later Today

That's all we know

Sony likes to tease, and that's just what it's doing today, promising some Vita news at 7pm UK time. We've no idea what the announcement will be, but as Sony recently announced Vita's European 3G partnership with Vodafone we're obviously getting to the good stuff: could we hear about the launch game line-up or pre-order bonuses...

Sony Pumping £2 Million Into Move Christmas Push

Sony Pumping £2 Million Into Move Christmas Push

Top titles get coverage

With Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception out last week, every other Sony PS3 title for this year supports PlayStation Move. Pretty impressive stuff, and something PlayStation wants to publicise with a £2m marketing campaign intended to shout about the motion controller this Christmas. Sony Computer Entertainment UK's product...

PlayStation Vita Playable at Eurogamer Expo This Month

PlayStation Vita Playable at Eurogamer Expo This Month

We'll be there

PlayStation Vita is set to make its playable debut in the UK this month. London's Earls Court will host the console during Eurogamer Expo from 22nd to 25th September, with Sony Worldwide Studios' Michael Denny hosting a presentation about the console on Thursday. VitaGamr's editorial team will be pounding the showfloor to get hands-on...

Rumour: PS3 to Drop to £199.99 in UK

PS3 to Drop to £199.99 in UK

That's cheap

It's Gamescom in Cologne at the moment and we've just heard an interesting rumour: Sony is about to announce a price drop for its PlayStation 3 console alongside a release date for PlayStation Vita. UK trade retailer MCV posted and quickly rescinded a story claiming the PS3 is set to drop to £199.99 in the UK. Thankfully we grabbed a...

Get Grease on Your PlayStation Move This November

Get Grease on Your PlayStation Move This November

Shake and shimmy with Sandy

The inexplicably popular musical Grease is coming to PlayStation Move later this year, with UK publisher 505 Games planning to unleash it on the Christmas crowds on 4th November. Last year the game released on Nintendo Wii to less than glowing reviews, but earlier this year 505 promised an improved Grease for Sony's...

Out Today: Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (UK)

Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (UK)

Shoot for the skies

Today Move finally becomes a flight stick as Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is released across the UK, with a European release to follow in two weeks. The World War I and II aerial combat game takes to the skies with 3DTV support and the ability to use Move to pilot 16 aircraft through nearly 50 missions. We've taken possession of a...

PlayStation Move Up for Big Technical Innovation Award

PlayStation Move Up for Big Technical Innovation Award

Will it beat Kinect?

Prestigious UK industry magazine Develop has announced the list of nominees for its upcoming awards ceremony, and PlayStation Move is up for the Technical Innovation category where it competes against Kinect for Xbox 360. One of Move's biggest successes so far, Killzone 3 is also up for a well deserved Visual Arts award, and...

Killzone 3 Beats Bulletstorm to Top UK Charts

Killzone 3 Beats Bulletstorm to Top UK Charts

Gunning down opponents

The long-awaited Killzone 3 blew up all-comers in the UK charts this week, outselling every other game to make it all the way to the top. The week's other high-profile release was Epic Games' multiplatform Bulletstorm which, in its Xbox 360-exclusive Epic Edition comes with beta access to Gears of War 3, but not even the...

Amazon Announces The Acquisition Of LOVEFiLM

Amazon Announces The Acquisition Of LOVEFiLM

Amazon's announced that they've acquired the European-based DVD-rental (and streaming) service LOVEFiLM for an undisclosed amount

LOVEFiLM launched an application on the PlayStation 3 late last year. According to VentureBeat, Amazon went ahead with the purpose because of the company's streaming solutions. Apparently, with 20 percent of the service's movies available digitally, Amazon jumped at the..

A Few UK Bundles for LittleBigPlanet 2, With Love from Sackboy

A Few UK Bundles for LittleBigPlanet 2, With Love from Sackboy

Grab a console or Starter Pack

LittleBigPlanet 2 is on course for a big debut when it reaches PS3 owners later this month, but if you're in the UK and haven't yet got a PlayStation Move Starter Pack – or, more importantly, a PlayStation 3 – there are a few packages on the way to cater for your needs. Game is offering a 320GB PS3 with the game...

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