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EA has announced that the PC version of football title FIFA 11 will at last boast the same sort of visual fidelity as the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. Recent versions of the sports outing on PC had lagged behind their console counterparts, having been based on older versions of …

Publisher Capcom has released some exciting pictures of a special edition version of zombie action title Dead Rising that will hit retail alongside the standard SKU on October 1st. Called The Outbreak Pack, the bundle includes a 12” zombie figurine and a number of accessories as well as a host …

In a surprise move, online retail giant Amazon has begun offering groceries on its website. The move is bizarrely reminiscent of an April Fools’ story posted by MCV earlier in the year where we joked that GAME was breaking into the fruit and veg market in an effort to fight …

EA has announced a new downloadable Dead Space game that will bridge the gap between the 2008 original and next year’s Dead Space 2. Dead Space Ignition will be available on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network this autumn, and challenges players to survive the initial Necromorph outbreak. It …

WWS boss Yoshida admits PS3 game development was challenging, but insists Sony has turned a corner

Successors to the Wii and Xbox 360 are more likely to arrive before the release of the PlayStation 4, according to a top Sony exec. Looking from the outside, it was Microsoft that released the first of this generation of consoles. Naturally, in my opinion, Microsoft will make the first …

The UK video games industry has already leapt into action following news that the responsibility for to Government’s Change4Life campaign is to be handed over to the private companies that until now part-funded it. A large drive to cut Government spending costs has seen all state funding of the ad …

Over a year on from the introduction of the controversial Change4Life campaign that infuriated the UK games industry by linking the playing of video games with premature death, the Government has confirmed that it is to withdraw all further funding for the project. Instead, Parliament intends to hand over funding …

Rob Bartel, the principal designer at BioWare, has told MCV that last year’s PC and console release Dragon Age was the most successful game the studio has ever produced – trumping high-profile sci-fi release Mass Effect in the process. The boast also places Dragon Age above the likes of Star …

Sega has announced that upcoming sci-fi shooter Vanquish will be released in the UK on October 22nd. Furthermore, those who have pre-ordered the game with certain retailers will be granted access to a DLC pack containing three weapons that will hit both Xbox Live and PSN on the day of …