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Last Monday we saw the UK retailer GAME go into administration. Gamers across the UK were shocked as 277 stores in the UK alone were closed to try and save everyone’s favourite high street video games store. According to an article posted on Eurogamer.net yesterday the GAME franchise has now been saved.  OpCapita, the company that owns Comet, has purchased GAME UK and has acquired all of its assets. This means that 333 stores (211 GAME and 122 Gamestation) have now been saved. Henry Jackson, [...]

You would think that the idea of throwing a variety of exotic birds at some evil green pigs would have only limited amusement value, and yet since its launch in 2009 the phenomenon that is Angry Birds has sold over 12 million copies. 12 million copies of a previously unknown game is pretty awesome, and this figure is excluding the amount of downloads on the Android market. It is now safe to say that gamers and non-gamers alike have been [...]

This month has been dark for Lionhead studios as CEO Peter Molyneux announced that he was leaving both the studio and Microsoft after the completion of Fable The Journey. Some gamers out there may think that he is running away with his tail between his legs after Fable III didn’t live up to its hype, others may think he is leaving to share his ‘visionary gaming mind’ with small time game developer 22 Cans. Whatever the reason for his departure [...]

PlusXP are pleased to announce that once again we will be affiliated with this years Eurogamer Expo. We will be providing full coverage of the event which runs from the 27th until the 30th of September at Earls Court London. Stay tuned to Plus XP for more exciting expo news over the coming months. For tickets and info visit: www.eurogamer.net/expo. -Garv

It’s been quite a while since we have had any new information on Halo 4. I have been exploring the internet with a fine tooth comb hoping to come across any hint of the game, hoping for new rumours or better yet a leaked screen shot.  Alas 343 studios, the new creative minds behind Halo have so far remained tight lipped. For all we know the game developers are hidden in an underground silo somewhere, secretly slaving away at the [...]

Last October cloud gaming finally made its way to Europe with the release of OnLive. A small video games console that would enable any gamer to plug into the internet and stream a video game just through a broadband connection. The Plus XP team were at the official OnLive launch Eurogamer Expo last year and the reception that OnLive received was probably the best they could have hoped for. Since the launch of OnLive, other companies have been jumping on [...]

 For the past week I have been playing Darksiders. I have wanted to become one of the horseman of the apocalypse for a while and as it was going cheap I seized the opportunity. Since then I haven’t put my PS3 controller down. What I love about this game is that it mixes puzzle and platform game play with hack and slash combat perfectly. The story is also well written and it draws you in right from the start. You play as [...]

The dawn of the Playstation brought with it some epic video game franchises.  Without Sony consoles we wouldn’t have such characters as Solid Snake, Lara Croft or even Spyro The Dragon. Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to have characters like Kratos and Nathan Drake pitted against each other in a fight to the death? Or even sack boy having a brawl against Crash Bandicoot? Well soon your wishes maybe granted Title Fight appears to be [...]

Rumours hit the internet todaythat at E3 this year not one but two new consoles are going to be announced. After a painfully long wait it finally looks as though both Microsoft and Sony will be announcing the next generations of the XBox and PlayStation family. The first site to make this announcement was mvcuk.com. They stated that  ”MCV’s third-party publishing sources claim the firm had signalled to partners this will happen.” Ben Parfitt MVC’s online editor also tweeted about the news saying “Obviously we [...]

As well as the usual gifts of jazzy ties, plentiful piles of socks and sugary treats, this Christmas I got a copy of Mario Kart 7. Being a casual Mario Kart fan since Super Mario Kart on the SNES, I was pleased I could finally get some extended hands on time with the new game.  I have always preferred the arcade style of racing games over the more realistic car simulators, for example I never got on with the likes [...]