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Halo Reach, Metal Gear Solid Rising, Left 4 Dead 2, Twitter – it’s hard to pick a highlight from microsoft’s excellent E3 presentation last night, but certainly the motion-sensing Natal camera is a prime contender. Those who have since toyed with Milo, Peter Molyneux’s AI-based creation built around the Natal …

Hollywood director James Cameron told the assembled crowds at E3 that Ubisoft was the perfect creative partner for the tie-in to his highly anticipated Avatar movie. The game will then be shown to selected media behind close doors in its full true-to-life 3D glory. Technically, we have a lot in …

Electronic Arts has announced it will release EA Sports MMA on Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2010. The latest addition to the EA Sports roster was unveiled during the publisher’s E3 press conference. It will deliver an authentic experience of mixed martial arts through a range of well-known fighting styles …

Sony will unveil its own competitor to the Wii Remote controller at its E3 conference this evening, according to our sources. Allegedly the format-holder has already briefed developers on the device. The new controller has been described to us as being a wand-like device for the PS3. It’s an all …

Ubisoft will publish No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle in the US. Rising Star Games holds the publishing rights for the game in the UK and Europe, with the title due for release in 2010. Both publishers were responsible for releasing the original game in their respective territories, which went …

E3'09: Realtime Worlds said it would never happen. At E3, Microsoft showed it has.

Microsoft has unveiled the sequel to its award-winning Crackdown. The game’s trailer was briefly shown during the platform holder’s pre-E3 press conference, and is due for release in 2010. Crackdown 2 brings back its trademark open world gameplay but with revamped cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes We know that your …

Microsoft might have wowed E3 attendees this morning with news of its Project Natal 3D camera, but Ubisoft said at its press event today that it didn’t want to wait until Christmas 2010 to innovate with camera interfaces. Instead, it is launching its own device, specifically for the Wii, later …

E3'09: Rez creator's Q Entertainment signed for secret project

E3'09: New MMO APB is publisher's latest dev deal