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Months after the game originally hit the headlines, Ubisoft’s We Dare has once again ignited the spark of controversy. The game went unnoticed for months earlier this year until Ubisoft went live with what some – although certainly not MCV – felt to be controversial trailer for the Wii title. …

Publisher 2K Games has confirmed that it has ditched US PR firm The Redner Group. Redner hit the headlines yesterday after publicly threatening to blacklist – as in, stop sending out review code for upcoming games – any media that it felt was too harsh on the critically slammed Duke …

Publisher EA has denied that it took the decision to remove Crysis 2 from Valve’s download service Steam. Yesterday it was reported that EA had taken the game off Valve’s portal and instead put it on its own Origin download service, complete with the slogan "Buy Now – Only on …

Why has Nordic Games chosen to focus on Wii?We chose Wii because there was clearly a gap for its very own SingStar, and that’s what we’ve provided. Another consideration was the cost to produce a genuinely good quality game using only start-up money. Two years ago that wasn’t possible for …

Nintendo president gives post-mortem on his significant address to the industry

Unconfirmed reports claim new system will support Direct X 10

With a current 85 per cent Metacritic average under its belt, Ubisoft’s Child of Eden has got off to a strong start ahead of its UK release this Friday (June 17th). "If you played Rez though and came out the other side with a massive smile that lasted for days, …

Crysis 2 will likely become exclusive to publisherâ??s own rival service, Origin

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Timesplitters 4 project 'to be announced for new hardware'