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'Future Generation' console programmers wanted

Hilleman takes wider view: Problems for any games firm puts whole sector in negative light

Just one year ago it seemed that Facebook WAS gaming, but 12 months down the line and it looks as if playing games on the world’s leading social network is on the decline. A new report from IHS Screen Digest Media Research claims that at the end of 2010 around …

Space 'very limited' for viewings of the next-gen tech

We take a look inside the powerful development tool Unreal Engine 3

'You don't want to worry about the people who were never going to pay you' says Seamless Entertainment boss

Chief creative exec says key EA brands must diversify for different platforms

Steve Kordek, the pinball machine pioneer whose creations had fuelled the coin-op industry for decades, has died aged 100. Chicago-born Kordek is widely believed to have designed the iconic two-flipper pinball machine. He passed away on February 19th. He had designed more than one hundred different pinball board layouts for …

BioWare fans looking for the complete Mass Effect 3 experience face an alarming outlay. Destructoid totted up the added cost of buying every pre-order incentive and every piece of DLC available across the market. And in Mass Effect 3’s case, many DLC offers come only as part of hardware bundles …

UK gamers will today be given the chance to grab a copy of Mass Effect 3 far ahead of its release in the territory on March 9th. As it has already done in San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York, EA will launch a copy of the game into space …