News Highlights: Tues 27th March

A quick round-up of today's news.
Text: Mike Holmes
Published 2012-03-27

The damage has been assessed, and here's the list of 277 GAME and Gamestation stores that were closed yesterday.

In Ireland some disgruntled GAME staff have started sit-in protests.

Robert Bowling has announced on twitter that he is leaving his position as Creative Strategist on Call of Duty at Infinity Ward.

Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment has purchased iOS, PC and Mac developer Futuremark Games Studio.

Videogame entertainment topped music and film in both retail and digital sales last year.

EA is deploying a massive Battlefield 3 patch onto PS3 today.

Sony pull Everybody's Tennis from PSN Store in bid to stop homebrew hackers.

And on GRTV we've got a nice mix of things for you today. Square Enix's Japan wing has released a minute long teaser trailer for something designated as "C". Epic releases Forces of Nature, the latest DLC for Gears of War 3. We've also got some additional gameplay footage of Yakuza: Dead Souls.

Back