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It isn’t being shown to the thousands of gamers that have descended on Koelnmesse for Gamescom’s public opening today, but talk of the show amongst the trade is Bioshock Infinite. Irrational Games’ second Bioshock title was unveiled to the press two weeks ago in New York but has been flown …

SCEE has sent a team of nine artists, programmers, designers and recruiters to the Apex hotel in Dundee to conduct interviews with affected staff at Realtime Worlds. Over 150 staff at APB studio Realtime Worlds have been made redundant, the firm’s new administrator confirmed yesterday. Along with Blitz, The Creative …

Vince Zampella and Jason West’s Respawn Entertainment has yet to decide exactly what its first game for publisher EA will be. The thing everybody needs to remember is they were starting at absolute zero,” EA Partners boss David DeMartini told Eurogamer. This is two guys who really know what they’re …

Microsoft would never dream of exiting the PC games space. That’s the message from European Xbox boss Chris Lewis, following the announcements of Microsoft Flight and Age of Empires Online at Gamescom. Early last year, Microsoft closed PC developers Ensemble (creators of Age of Empires) and ACES (the studio behind …

Microsoft has offered a fresh look at exactly how Lionhead’s unique Kinect demo has progressed. It’s the first time we’ve had chance to look at a real gameplay demonstration of the title since its dramatic unveiling at last year’s E3. A year ago I showed this off at a computer …

SCEE joins a growing list of studios heading to Scotland in the wake of the Realtime Worlds meltdown

The PS3 is facing a new piracy scare. Engadget reports that a new USB modchip claims to allow users to ‘dump’ game code onto a storage device (such as a USB stick or the PS3’s internal HDD). These can then be played without the use of the original disc. Though …

Gran Turismo 5 will be released in the UK on November 3rd. There’s no way it can slip. No way at all. But let’s not count our chickens until it’s actually in the wild and sitting on retail shelves. Let’s certainly not utter mention of GranTurismo 6. Although that’s exactly …

There’s a good chance our top story is going to ruffle some feathers. But a list that ranks the top ten UK online games media – yes, including us, and yes, including all the competition – is long overdue. Of course, it’s little wonder why there hasn’t been one yet. …

Consumer press readerships are fast migrating online – but who is doing the best in the UK? MCV can this week answer that question with the specialist games press’ first online ranking. Using ComScore data obtained by MCV, we’ve ranked the top ten UK sites covering video games. The full …