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Originally Posted by wraggster

Rockstar and Take-Two's Grand Theft Auto IV has shipped more than 22 million units since release in April 2008, according to company chairman Strauss Zelnick.
Speaking at the ThinkEquity Annual Growth conference, reported by IndustryGamers, he noted that the Grand Theft Auto franchise has in total now shipped more than 114 million units.
Shipments of Take-Two's Midnight Club series have reached 18.5 million, NBA 2K 17 million and Red Dead Redemption 12.5 million. Strategy series Civilization

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Independent developer tinyBuild has released its flash game No Time To Explain on file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
As a special bonus, the Pirate Bay version of the game features many of the character in distictive pirate hats.
"We thought it'd be funny to leak a pirate version ourselves which is literally all about pirates and pirate hats," creator Alex Nichiporchik told TorrentFreak.
"I mean, some people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The tenth Final Fantasy was released for PlayStation 2 in 2001, and Square Enix producer Shinji Hashimoto took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show press conference to announce a tenth anniversary HD remake for PlayStation 3 and Vita.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/final-f...make-announced

Originally Posted by wraggster

Hideo Kojima took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show conference earlier today to confirm that Metal Gear Solids 2 and 3 will be released for PlayStation Vita as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Edition. Zone Of The Enders and its sequel are also headed to Sony's PSP successor, with both collections due next year. Kojima also announced an all-new game, to be built using his Fox Engine, that will be released for both PS3 and Vita.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/metal-g...nders-set-vita

Originally Posted by wraggster

The smart money was always on another Dead Or Alive title when news broke last week that Tecmo Koei was to announce a new game at the Tokyo Game Show, and so it proved: Dead Or Alive 5 is in development for Xbox 360 and PS3. Attendees of the publisher's TGS event today were shown a teaser trailer of a pre-alpha build showing Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa battling Hayate. Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi hinted at a departure for the series, describing it as "fighting entertainment" instead

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