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EA has revealed a list of games being offered free of charge to SimCity players as compensation for the title’s disaster launch. Any consumer who purchases and authenticates SimCity by March 25, 2013 at 11:59pm PST will receive a token to download a digital PC version of one of the …

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Maxis. Ire from SimCity players ebbed a bit when the game’s servers caught up (for the most part) with consumer demand and downtime and disconnections abated. Since then, anger has shifted to the root of the problem: SimCity’s need to always be …

The Alan Partridge Movie has debuted an official still online, ahead of the launch of the first official trailer (due at noon on 15 March 2013). We’ll also receive word on the official title at the same time. All we know right now? It won’t be called The Alan Partridge …

The Disney Infinity release date has been delayed by two months to August 18 in North America and August 20 in Europe. The home console, handheld and PC game’s launch was originally scheduled to coincide with June’s release of Pixar’s Monsters University. However, Disney Interactive co-president John Pleasants told the …

Sylvester Stallone is hard at work assembling his next team of badasses for The Expendables 3 , and has taken to Twitter to drop some hints as to what we can expect from the new film. “Writing EX3 at the moment,” began the star. “There are going to be mountains …

(opens in new tab) Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and FIFA 13 were the two best-selling entertainment products of 2012 at UK retail. That’s according to Chart-Track and Official Charts Company data passed along to MCV, which says Activision’s FPS shifted 2.67 million copies last year, narrowly beating the …

Joss Whedon has weighed in on the debate surrounding the forthcoming Star Wars: Episode VII , suggesting that he’d do things differently. More specifically, Whedon has given his opinion on the imminent return of original stars Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, suggesting they should be left in the …

Earlier in the month we brought you the news that Disney was circling Emma Watson as the first choice to play Cinderella in its forthcoming reboot from director Kenneth Branagh. However, Variety ‘s Marc Graser (opens in new tab) now reports that the star has turned down the opportunity to …

To celebrate the publication of Light , the sixth and final book in Michael Grant’s bestselling Gone series, Egmont Press has created an online game, Gone Online , based on the books which you can play NOW ! Gone Online can be played at www.gone-online.com over a six week period. …

A second UK games retailer has slashed the Wii U price in a bid to stimulate sales. Last week, British supermarket chain Asda introduced a Wii U price cut of £50, and now online specialist games retailer ShopTo has followed suit. While Asda is offering basic and premium versions of …