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Movie company set to film documentary as it plots to uncover thousands of buried E.T. cartridges

Sony’s intriguing PS3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls has been issued with a concrete release date. The game will be released on these shores on October 11th. It hits North America on October 8th. Beyond follows in the footsteps of Heavy Rain, which was the debut PS3 release for French studio …

No customer data compromised as CCP turns MMOs back on

It has become the thing of legend but now the myth behind famous Atari 2600 calamity ET: The Extra Terrestrial is to be explored. 1982 release ET has become the thing of legend. The game enjoyed a famously ramshackle development process that resulted in creator Howard Scott Warshaw being given …

Call of Duty: Ghosts development lead Mark Rubin discusses a studio reborn

Conference features 100 sessions spanning plethora of industry relevant topics

Big news about the game that many Wii U owners have been frantically waiting for could be nearly upon us. The creator of cult franchise Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya, has said on Twitter that those waiting for more information about Bayonetta 2 should check out Nintendo’s upcoming Nintendo Direct, currently scheduled …

Game creators can now evaluate potential integration of APIs and conduct limited testing

Recent FPS release Metro Last Light has smashed the commercial performance of its predecessor Metro 2033. The game has in one week of release already matched what the last game achieved in its first three months and the PC version managed triple the sales that 2033 managed in its first …

Develop discovers how the Call of Duty studio returned from the brink of collapse