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Titantic and Aliens director James Cameron has said that Ubisoft is staying loyal to his forthcoming fully 3D movie Avatar – by creating a game that is visually in stereo”. Cameron’s film, which is due for release next year, takes advantage of stereoscopic (3D-capable) projectors in cinemas. Cameron told Cnet …

The British Board Of Film Classification is to introduce age ratings for downloadable video games in the UK – and ‘police’ online retailers to ensure they are not selling adult titles to youngsters. The body this morning confirmed that it is to launch BBFC.online – a classification system for both …

Early version of game-sharing initiative online now

This year has been a record breaker in terms of revenues – what do you feel were the key drivers for this success? Our performance was driven by strong market conditions as well as the continued success of our franchise portfolio. You need great products to be successful and we …

The market-leading handheld will receive a boost in a few weeks as three new SKUs and a high-profile new cooking title hit the shelves. Red, turquoise and green DS Lites will be launched on June 13th at around 99, while Japanese phenomenon Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What To Eat? will …

Speaking in an interview with Wired , Microsoft corporate VP Shane Kim has stated that a winner in the next-gen format war can’t be declared until a format is on its way toward selling 100m worldwide. Now, if you don’t get 10 million units in Japan, can you get to …

Studio that made XBLA game Undertow to remain focused on making games using Unreal Engine 3

Nintendo has told a European Union court that a €149.1 million ($232 million) fine handed to them by EU regulators for price fixing in 2002 was unjustified. The European Commission fined Nintendo and seven distributors a total of €167.8 million for colluding between 1991 and 1998 to raise prices of …

Talking to Reuters , Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has once again pledged to grow his company globally – but this time added that he expects to buy stakes in game developers in the next year. Wada confirmed he is already in talks with a number of parties. "Economies of …

The CEO of Deep Silver parent Koch Media has told MCV he is confident that the label can avoid direct competition against the likes of EA, Activision and Ubisoft – and be an independent success. Speaking in a wider interview, Klemens Kundratitz said that the company had to "play our …