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Xbox Live’s Hydrophobia is the lead game in Microsoft’s latest collection of digital titles – Game Feast. Like its Summer of Arcade promotion which featured games such as Limbo and Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light, Game Feast is Microsoft’s pick of new downloadable titles in early Q4. Hydrophobia …
Read More »Another publisher partners with GMAs
Sega has become the latest company to back this year’s Games Media Awards. The publisher is sponsoring the Best Writer, Print category at the event, which takes place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom on Thursday, October 14th. Senior PR manager Stefan McGarry told MCV: We’re happy to support the event as …
Read More »Realtime Worlds emptied of its last 50 staff
Seven temp roles remain to wind business down; redundancy complaints raised; US studio fate unknown; announcement expected
Read More »All Systems Go
Mark Cale of System 3 reveals why publishers aren't to be feared
Read More »‘We have PSP2 in the house’
It was MIA at E3. There was no sign of it at Gamescom. And all hope of a Tokyo Game Show reveal was scuppered this week when Sony’s press event came and went without even the faintest whiff of new hardware. So where is PSP2? By the sounds of it, …
Read More »RTW faces closure as rescue bid fails [Update 2]
Potential partners reluctant to buy the studio; redundancies made; APB bid to relaunch
Read More »MS predicts 3m+ Kinect sales this Q4
Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed. Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3m units this holiday,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. Our key indicators are feedback from …
Read More »Retail readies for PlayStation Move
Adam Davis – Trading Director, GAME Our stores are all geared up for the launch of PlayStation Move, and customer excitement is increasing. Lots of our teams have played and enjoyed it already, and this is being passed on when they talk to our customers.As always with a big new …
Read More »Codemasters and Sega partner for Grid Arcade
Popular racing series coming to arcade cabinets
Read More »Games industry prepares to Move
With the release of Halo Reach just days behind us the video games industry is already bracing itself for the second big launch of the week – the PlayStation Move. Though PS3 has always supported motion to a limited extent via the SixAxis controller, Move takes motion control on the …
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