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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was the top-selling game in the US in 2012, according to new data released by retail monitor the NPD Group. Activision’s title was one of four first-person shooters to make a list of the ten best-selling games in North America last year, the others …

The Wii U’s sales may not have quite matched those of its predecessor, but it’s winning in one significant area. Nintendo revealed today that the system has brought in $300 million in the U.S. with 890,000 units sold after 41 days on the market, whereas the original Wii had pulled …

You’d be forgiven for thinking that US TV network FX’s adaptation of the Brian Michael Bendis’s Powers was dead. After all, the network made a pilot back in 2011 starring Jason Patric… and then nothing. But it seems the show could still make it to air, although not in a …

The 2013 Bafta nominations were announced today , and to present the flipside of that celebration of classiness in movies, the 33rd Annual Razzie Award nominations have been unveiled. Naming and shaming the worst movies of 2012, the awards have taken particular issue with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – …

Three Dog, that howling voice in the quiet desolation of Fallout 3’s Capital Wasteland, may not have barked his last. Voice actor Erik Todd Dellums tweeted a brief tease yesterday that the Galaxy News Radio DJ could appear in the post-apocalypse again. “To all my #Fallout3 and #ThreeDog fans: There …

However, global president Satoru Iwata told Japanese business publication Nikkei that the company won’t be experimenting in the free-to-play market with established franchises like Mario and Pokemon. “We [as an industry] can now do distribution by digital means as well as micro-transactions, and the ways to obtain money through supporting …

Activision has spelled out all the gorey details for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s upcoming Revolution DLC in a new video preview. The pack includes four new competitive maps, as well as a new zombie map and mode, and new weapon. Treyarch hopes to shake up the competitive scene …

Sony’s upcoming remake of Carrie has received a grisly new poster, but has also been delayed by a good seven months from its original release date. The film had initially been slated to arrive in March, only for the studio to shunt it back until October 2013. Given that it’s …

The casting chatter surrounding Marvel’s forthcoming adaptation of Guardians Of The Galaxy just got significantly jucier, with the studio reportedly considering Joseph Gordon-Levitt for leading man Peter Quill. Quill is perhaps better known as Star-Lord, the son of a human mother and alien father and captain of a psychically-controlled spaceship …

Microsoft’s director of programming for Xbox Live, Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb, has posted an E3 2013 countdown clock on his blog, fuelling rumours that a successor to the Xbox 360 will be revealed by Microsoft at this year’s gaming convention. In the post, titled ‘Countdown to E3 2013’ and accompanied …