Warner Bros. Entertainment bids for Midway Games
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced that they are launching a bid for the videogame company Midway Games.
Their offer is worth around USD 33 million.
Midway Games is behind some popular videogame franchises like Mortal Kombat. The company had filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year.
Warner is not interested [...]

Nintendo DSi launch in UK on April 3
Nintendo has announced that they would be launching their Nintendo DSi handheld gaming console in the UK market in April this year.
Nintendo DSi has been on sale in the Japanese market since November last year.
Nintendo would sell the DSi in UK for £149.99.
Nintendo DSi is [...]

Grand Theft Auto IV broke first day sales record in UK
Grand Theft Auto IV has come and it has already started breaking all sorts of sales records.
The game has now broken the first day sales records in Britain.
Entertainment Retailers Association said in a statement that as per their estimates, the game sold about 609,000 copies [...]

Manhunt 2 could soon be on sale in Britain
Rockstar Games have won an appeal against the ban imposed on their videogame title Manhunt 2 in Britain.
The game was originally rejected two times by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
Incidentally, this was the first time in around a decade that a game was banned in [...]

Sony confirms Playstation 3 40GB edition for Europe

Japanese videogame console maker Sony has announced that they would be launching a 40 GB edition of their Playstation 3 gaming console in the European market.
However, this console would lack support for older generation of games. Sony did not say anything about this console being launched in the [...]

Take-Two to benefit from Manhunt 2 launch delay, analysts believe
Industry analysts have said that Take-Two Interactive Software is likely to gain from the suspension of the launch of their latest gaming title Manhunt 2.
The company announced their decision to delay the launch of the game after it was banned in Britain and Ireland. The game [...]

Manhunt 2 banned in Ireland
Ireland has imposed its first ban on a videogame product. The distinction goes to Manhunt 2 which is scheduled to be launched by Rockstar for Nintendo Co.’s Wii and Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 2 and Playstation Portable consoles.
Irish film censor board had these words for this game: “gross, unrelenting and gratuitous violence”.
Irish [...]