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Heavy Iron Studios will allegedly let go of 60-70 of its over 100 employees. Kotaku was informed by sources that the layoffs will occur at the former THQ subsidiary this week. The company previously handled much of THQ’s movie tie-in titles

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Rumor: Heavy layoffs at Heavy Iron Studios

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been entrenched at the top spot of the UK sales chart for six weeks now. FIFA 10 ’s expected pre-holiday sales surge happened and the game rebounded from fifth to second place, but it still wasn’t enough to suppress the firepower of Activision’s FPS (it seems the only thing more powerful than Call of Duty is Waldo ). While stuffing themselves with Turkish delight, Chart-Track has declared this the ” Official Christmas Chart ” of 2009

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Modern Warfare 2 spends sixth week atop UK sales chart

Gamespot is reporting that Nintendo revealed to them that a few oft-requested classic titles will be added to the Virtual Console within the coming weeks. According to the report, the festivities will kick off this coming Monday, when Super Mario Kart (which has been available in Japan for approximately forever ) will be added to the storefront for the standard price of 800 Wii Points ($8).

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Report: Mario Kart, Pilotwings and Smash Bros. coming to Virtual Console by year’s end

Nintendo vice president of corporate affairs Denise Kaigler recently announced via the Nintendo Minute feature on IGN that she would be vacating her position in order to spend more time with her family. In the post, she explained, “it’s a fact of life that job and family often pull us in opposite directions.

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Nintendo’s Denise Kaigler steps down to spend time with family

You don’t see nearly the amount of coverage of Second Life (or as we call it in these parts, PlayStation Home ’s creepy, aggressively pornographic uncle) these days as you used to, and BBC did a little digging to find out why. Their discovery?

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BBC asks: What happened to Second Life?

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is set to receive a network optimization patch alongside the game’s first DLC at the end of October, according to executive producer Sion Lenton. In an interview with Eurogamer , Lenton said the team at Codemasters has planned for more downloadable content, but has yet to decide what the new content will be. “It’s not a lot of fuss for us to make new content – it’s actually quite easy for us to get it out there, with regards to things like levels, game modes, etc,” Lenton said

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Operation Flashpoint patch coming alongside first DLC

Shocking absolutely no one, Peter Molyneux has confirmed that Fable III will support Project Natal in some fashion. The confirmation came during a lecture at BAFTA in London. The news was confirmed by Eurogamer’s Johnny Minkley, who tweeted the info during the event itself.

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Molyneux confirms Natal support in Fable III

Outlawed off-white accessory news now, with CVG relaying manufacturer Datel’s unenthusiastic response to the the forthcoming Xbox 360 Dashboard update , which intends to kill support for unauthorized, third-party memory units . Datel has said that it’s “disappointed” by Microsoft’s decision, one that it feels will limit consumers in “exercising their freedom of choice.” Specifically, their freedom of choosing a memory solution that doesn’t come from Microsoft. What to do if you’re the owner of one of these bad boys?

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Datel ‘disappointed’ by Xbox 360’s unofficial memory unit lockout

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Sony Australia flings a PS3 into a Bravia, technophiles cringe