Publishing

Distributor Realtime will now deliver Blaze accessories to retail. The company will handle products such as Blaze’s range of Sega-licensed consoles. Realtime Distribution’s purchasing director Julie Darrington said: The growing popularity of ‘old school’ titles, coupled with the increasing demand for portable gaming, means that we expect the Blaze Mega Drive …

Free Dundee event opens March 26th

Capcom has promised it is working to make the perfect” Devil May Cry game in the upcoming reboot. One of the company’s representatives posted on the game’s official forum, reassuring fans that the divisive new direction for the series will restore its former glories. He claimed this is largely due …

It has been confirmed that Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior VP of marketing and PlayStation network Peter Dille has left the company. Dille spent eight years at SCEA before heading to THQ in 1999. He then rejoined his former employer in 2006. A replacement has not yet been named, nor …

Trailer released following days of shaky-cam footage

Windows and Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has promised that its PC service Games for Windows Live will "continue to get better". Speaking to CVG, Microsoft’s senior producer of interactive entertainment Kevin Unangst told CVG that the service "lacked fantastic games" and had endured what he called a "rocky start". …

Guitar Hero and DJ Hero may currently be rocking on with the big drummer in the sky, but fresh rumours have emerged about a further lifeline for the ‘Hero’ brand. Kotaku claims to have word from an unspecified source that Activision is currently working on Dance Hero which, as the …

Though we won’t know anything concrete for a long, long time to come, the very first roll of the dice on what will eventually become the next generation of console hardware seems to have been made.Eurogamer reports that three Microsoft job listings on LinkedIn point to the very early stages …

Black Bean has partnered with specialist magazine Motor Cycle News to promote its upcoming motorbike racer, SBK 11. The tie-up has already resulted in SBK-branded bikes and demo pods filling up a booth at the Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle Show at ExCeL London, which was held last month. The pods …

It enjoyed one of the lowest profile releases in the history of the franchise but Microsoft has claimed that Xbox 360 strategy title Halo Wars actually beat the company’s sales expectations. "It was a big critical success," the creative director of Halo-focused development studio Frank O’Connor told CVG. "It’s still …