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Report: 60% Of Britain’s Xbox 360s Have Died

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | Following in the wake of Game Informer’s armchair survey earlier in the year – which found that 54.2% of American Xbox 360s had broken down – CNET have done a similar study for the British market. With similar results. More »
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British Sales Charts: A Warfare Most Modern

1:00AM Luke Plunkett | As expected, Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 has marched straight into the top spots on the British charts, breaking practically every sales record it passed along the way. More »
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Modern Warfare 2 Ships Three Million… In One Country

11:30PM Luke Plunkett | Need an idea of just how big Modern Warfare 2’s launch has been? Here’s one: Over the past week, Activision shipped three million copies of the game… to the United Kingdom. More »
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British Sales Charts: The Calm Before The Storm

12:30AM Luke Plunkett | Welcome to last week’s British sales charts, where a number of games have done the chivalrous thing and kept the seat warm for the incoming Modern Warfare 2. More »
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Global Game Sales Down 6% In 2009

7:30PM Luke Plunkett | While the worst of it seems to be behind us, 2009 will still be remembered as the year of the global economic crisis. And when people are in times of economic crisis, well, they buy less video games. More »
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Xbox 360 Getting Pay TV This Month (In Britain)

5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Next month, Xbox 360 users in the UK will be able to access Sky TV from their Xbox 360. This is probably going to be a big, big deal. More »
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Sony Announces 250GB PS3 Bundles For The UK

9:00PM Luke Plunkett | Sony Computer Entertainment Europe took time out of their TGS routine to announce a range of bundles for the brand new 250GB PlayStation 3 in the UK. More »
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UK Seeking Wii Ambassadors, Giving Away Virtual Console Games

10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Nintendo UK must be having trouble getting Wii owners to realise that the machine can be connected to the internet, because they’re launching an incentive program aimed at doing just that. More »
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British Sales Charts: We Did Not See This One Coming

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | The British charts are a mostly predictable thing. Nintendo games most of the time, football games when applicable, shooters at Christmas. But last week threw up a little surprise. More »
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Sony Europe Platinum Range Expands

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Europe’s budget line for PlayStation 3 games, the Platinum range, last week expanded by four titles, each going for £20 (AU$38). Strangely, they all seem to be using the old box format and old PS3 logo. More »