[Updated] In an MMO arrival of Harry Potter?

The imagination runs on the edge of the stick is enough for a teaser web site with the signing by JK Rowling (pottermore. com) to set off the speculation of fans: do you ever hide behind the page mysterious property of Warner Bros.? For now nothing is known, but one of the most credible hypothesis, derived from reading the copyright page, is to some MMO dedicated to the series.

Otherwise, why talk about multiple users, exchange messages and interactions between them in real time? Another clue would be the possible meaning of that "more" in the title of the site, developed in Massively "Multiplayer Online Role-playing Experience", that online role-playing experience.

The collection of Devil May Cry HD appears in a Spanish shop

Many of course only on the price they expected to see the collection of the first three Devil May Cry reissued in HD at E3, but nothing. Vanished into thin air. Some have even suggested that the project had been quashed by Capcom. Apparently not. Today it appeared on the list of a store video game Devil May Cry Spanish 10th Anniversary Collection on PS3, complete with packshot and release date: November 30, 2011.

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Annihilation: The trailer and images

After the announcement, here is the trailer for the new map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops After the announcement (link), here comes the video of the new map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops - Annihilation. In the movie, and developers talk about the new maps show, briefly explaining the basic philosophy.

Along with the video, Activision has made available six screenshots of the DLC.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops' 'Annihilation' maps revealed (16/06/2011)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops - Annihilation Gameplay Preview [Video] (16/06/2011)
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• New Call Of Duty: Black Ops Map Pack Confirmed - Annihilation Inbound (16/06/2011)
• More Zombie Action Shambling Its Way to Call of Duty: Black Ops via DLC (16/06/2011)

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Peter Moore: No online play for EA Sports

The social future is Peter Moore, president of EA Sports, said that the online will not be part of the future of the company's sports titles, especially those of Madden and FIFA series. For Moore, EA Sports is only following what are the changing needs of users, the need to redefine its business and trying to exploit all the possibilities of social interaction that the network has to offer.

In short, the EA sports games are not more of the individual experiences to be enjoyed in private, but the actual services that the user accesses the time. Source: Gamesindustry. biz

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• EA Sports Opening a Retail Store in an Airport (15/06/2011)

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The 20 most profitable games in Europe in 2010

Guess who has to have produced more revenue? MCV has released the sales figures of 2010 in Europe, drawing up a list of the 20 games from higher revenues, even dividing the nation by nation. Obviously the first place could not be Call of Duty: Black Ops, followed by FIFA 11. In third place, far removed from the first two, there's Wii Fit, an evergreen of the Nintendo Wii.

Let's see the rankings: 1 Call of Duty: Black Ops (Activision Blizzard) - 6,277,172 2 FIFA 11 (Electronic Arts) - 5,451,456 3 + Wii Fit Board (Nintendo) - 2,151,697 4 Dead Red Redemption (Rockstar ) - 2,436,098 5 Gran Turismo 5 (Sony) - 2,007,907 6 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Ubisoft) - 1,904,946 7 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision Blizzard) - 1,999,337 8 New Super Mario Bros.

The SDK Kinect officially available for Windows 7

Finally, we will exploit this unique device, Microsoft released a beta SDK for Windows 7 Kinect. The package includes drivers, APIs, interfaces, equipment, documents on installing and varied material. With the SDK, all Windows 7 users will have easy access to the capabilities of Kinect. Perhaps soon we will see some good.

If you are interested and want to download it, go to Microsoft Research. Source: Eurogamer. net

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• Kinect for Windows SDK beta now available to download (16/06/2011)

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Game Republic closes its doors

According to Kotaku reported in these hours, Game Republic studio behind titles such as Genji: Days of the Blade has closed its doors, although for the moment have not yet been released on official communications. Game Republic had recently launched Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom and Knight's Contract, but neither has been so successful that financial support for the company.

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