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After years of speculation Microsoft has finally gone on record to discuss its new home console. The comments come as part of the latest Major Nelson podcast. Microsoft’s interactive entertainment chief of staff Aaron Greenberg revealed that the company is planning a two-stage console reveal. The first part is tomorrow …

Sources claim as many as 80 per cent of staff made redundant

The Creative Assembly director looks at the issue of crunch, and why the effects are not the same for everyone

We’re nearly there – in just a few short hours Microsoft will at last reveal the successor to the Xbox 360. But what exactly are we to expect from the announcement? TO SEE A LIVE STREAM OF THE EVENT CLICK HERE. Well, possible names include Xbox Infinity, Xbox Fusion or …

Mike Simpson considers the concept of 'good overtime'

Firelight Technologies' Gino Bollaert shows us what's next for spatialised audio in games

Denis Dyack is fighting back. The controversial developer and former head of Silicon Knights has launched a counter-attack against the allegations made against it in the press. It all stems back to an article printed on Kotaku in October of last year. In it both Silicon knights and Dyack himself …

Deep Silver’s Metro: Last Light has debuted at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. That means that the publisher has now enjoyed four straight weeks at the top after the three successive crowns won by Dead Island: Riptide, which this week slips to second place. Last …

With Microsoft and Sony about the throw millions and millions of pounds at launching their next-gen consoles, some observers may quite rightly ask one question – why? After all, mobile and casual games are the new frontier, right? Folk don’t want to spend 50 on triple-A games, let alone anything …

The Xbox brand was launched in India in a big way in 2006. Microsoft pulled out all the stops, roping in celebrity endorsements from the likes of Akshay Kumar and Yuvraj Sigh. Seven years on, we’re set to welcome the 360’s successor, and we don’t expect anywhere near that level …