HMV has said it now plans to upsize store space for games rather reducing it following a decision on the latter a few weeks ago.

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Croteam’s confirmed it’s still workin on Serious Sam 3 for a release on Xbox 360 following the launch of the PC version earlier in the year, but fans are in for a wait at least.

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Steam vouchers will go on sale soon at GameStop stores, Kotaku‘s reported. The site’s carrying a picture of a voucher tied into the Valve service. The vouchers will go on sale in stores beginning next Tuesday, May 15.

Namco’s released new DLC for Touch My Katamari in Japan. The new content features collaborations from manga/anime Usagi Drop, manga artist Takayuki Mizushina, retailer Matsumoto Shoten, East Japan Taxi ‘Blue Ribbon’ and a redevelopment group. Nope, I don’t get it neither.

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MCV‘s reporting the new LEGO Lord of the Rings set features confirmation that a tie-in game is on the way. Blurry images taken of review sets show logos for both Warner and developer Travellers Tales. TT’s main efforts as late has been the LEGO games, including Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars and Batman. A sequel for the latter arrives this summer.

Capcom’s announced this morning its shipped 2 million units worldwide of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The Slant Six shooter launched at the end of March in the west and the end of April in Japan, but was critically slammed, hitting 52 on MetaCritic on both PS3 and 360.

The Q2 lull is over, financials season is in full swing and E3 2012 is alarmingly close. It’s time to take a look over the major players and see what the year ahead holds, starting with the effervescent EA.

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The Sons of Anarchy game that’s previously been mooted will happen on consoles and not as a browser game, the show’s creator Kurt Sutter has confirmed.

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ArenaNet’s announced a surprise beta testing for the Guild Wars 2 beta for this coming Monday.

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Sony’s officially lifted the veil off Soul Sacrifice, giving the game its first official trailer following a Famitsu blowout yesterday. The game, being made as a collaboration between Studio Japan, Marvelous and ex-Capcom dev boss Keiji Inafune, is set to arrive this winter in Japan for Vita. Want to see a monster rip his spine out and use it as a sword. Get watching below the break.

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Sony has been hit by an annual loss of ¥456.7 billion ($5.74 billion) in comparison to the ¥259.6 billion loss last year, with PS3 sales also down.

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Nintendo powerhouse Masahiro Sakurai isn’t interested in producing a sequel for recent 3DS release Kid Icarus Uprising.

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Kotaku reports some Minecraft fans have been disappointed to discover the Xbox 360 Edition doesn’t support split-screen play on standard definition tellies; port developer 4J Studios has confirmed you’ll need an HD cable and display. Minecraft’s not exactly visually demanding so it seems a bit odd, but there you go: if you’re fronting a CRT and looking for some couch-buddy good times, save your 1600 MS Points.

Peter Moore believes traditional retailers still have a lot to offer the games industry, even as digital revenue becomes a necessary side of the business.

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Despite a growing acceptance of freemium-first business models, the informed money is on a premium subscription model for The Elder Scrolls Online.

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EA has released a new opt-in beta for Origin. Some fine-tuning in the latest version will lower the client’s tendency to hog your system, and also ease the cumbersome DLC download process. It also allows you to display your real name via a tool-tip, so go ahead and disable that if you’re afraid of being outed as that twit who rage quits two rounds into a Mass Effect 3 match. I will find you. More details on EA’s blog.

New maps, new spec ops missions, and a whole new multiplayer mode will feature in the next content drop for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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Why would the Decepticons have kidnapped a bunch of children? Find out in this trailer for Transformers: Prime.

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File this under “wild extrapolation” if you like, but BioShock: Infinite’s delay and Irrational Games’s search for a networking expert paints a compelling picture, probably titled “still life with multiplayer”.

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Square Enix has outlined a number of pre-order bonuses for Hitman: Absolution, including exclusive weapons and suits.

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