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Sony has announced some additional server shutdown that will see the online functionality of four titles gone for good. The highest profile casualty is PS3 racer MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, which from October 1st will see its online modes inaccessible. The game was first released in 2008. Three other games to …

200 members of the media and industry PRs to vote for best UK writers

It was only a matter of time until ArmA II zombie mod DayZ spawned a fully-fledged stand-alone title. And that’s exactly what we have in the form of The War Z, which IGN reports is being developed by previously unheard of Hammerpoint Interactive and published by the little-known Arktos Entertainment. …

Lobbying for this year’s Games Media Awards has now closed, with hundreds of individuals from across the games press – and broader industry – nominating the UK’s writers, mags, websites and more for one of the sector’s top accolades. Now it’s in the hands of the judges. As ever, the …

Games to be taken offline from October 1st

MCV’s sister site Music Week, the globally renowned b2b media brand at the heart of the music industry, has unveiled a brand new version of its websitewww.musicweek.com. The much needed overhaul comes less than a year after the brand was acquired by independent trade publisher Intent Media and follows a …

New Super Mario Bros 2 will be the first Nintendo game to get a simultaneous digital and retail release – and Nintendo wants its customer base to experiment. All Nintendo games come with a Club Nintendo Coins card that can be redeemed against goodies. The standard Coins reward for a …

'Innovation within software is basically free, and it's growing incredibly rapid. Patents only slow it down', says Persson

Consumers 'are more willing to invest in original content at the start of a new generation'

A second high-profile publisher figure has bemoaned the extended lifecycles of the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. "What we missed was a new console every five years," Ubisoft CEO and co-founder Yves Guillemot told Gamasutra. "We have been penalized by the lack of new consoles on the market. I understand …