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Originally Posted by wraggster

Cut-price trade-in deals have become the norm on the High Street, but now online-only retailer GameStop.co.uk has dragged the sector into the online arena.
The headline is Modern Warfare 3 for 99p, but in reality the new deal offers gamers the chance to buy both EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Modern Warfare 3 for £37.96.
This is how it works:
Gamers must buy Battlefield 3 for £36.97 from GameStop on either Xbox 360 or PS3.
Then, they need to also buy Call of Duty: Modern

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sonic the Hedgehog is the first winner at this year's record-breaking Golden Joystick Awards.
Sega's iconic mascot has won the very first outstanding contribution award in the same year that it celebrates its 20th anniversary.
The 29th annual GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards has a also smashed the Guinness World Record for the most votes cast in a gaming awards. 2.06 million votes were cast in picking this year's winners.
The winners that will be joining Sonic will be revealed

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Originally Posted by wraggster

As if you hadn’t already got the message, Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham City is something rather special. So special, in fact, that it’s claimed the world’s first 100%+ review.
Yahoo! Games awarded the title a time and space-splintering six out of five it its review.
“Your entire gaming life could’ve been leading up to this moment, especially if you were raised on a strict Nintendo diet,” the review reads.
“We mean this in the best possible sense when we say that the legacies of

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Originally Posted by wraggster

To celebrate Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's launch next month (and world-class moustaches everywhere), Activision is partnering with Australian charity Movember.
Movember is an Aussie charity founded in 1999 to help promote men's health issues such as prostate cancer and depression. Every year, men take sponsorship to grow, from scratch, the most delectible moustache they can muster over the month of November to raise money for these causes.
Activision will also be driving people to

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Originally Posted by wraggster

If there was any remaining doubt that FIFA is the runaway market leader in the football genre, it has just been extinguished.

Speaking to Gamerzines yesterday, EA Northern Europe boss Keith Ramsdale claimed FIFA 12 has been outselling PES 2012 by a giant margin.

"When you look at Pro Evolution Soccer versus FIFA, only five years ago in the UK PES was outselling FIFA. On its first weekend like-for-like we've just outsold PES by 25 times.

"That's a

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