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Comedian Rufus Hound is joining Nintendo to promote the upcoming Mario Kart 7 tournament. Due to take place this summer, the Britian’s Fastest Family Tournament offers keen Mario Kart 7 players a chance to win a Honda Jazz and other Nintendo goodies as well as the coveted Mario Kart 7 …

A number of high-profile backers have put their names to a new startup that intends to deliver a $99 Android-based console. Like any other console, Ouya will connect to a TV. But that’s about all it has in common. All of its titles will be free-to-play and any developer will …

'This is not World of Warcraft, we aren't going to be able to add new content every couple of months', says dev

A filing with the Federal Communications Commission suggests that Sony might be preparing to reveal a brand new PlayStation 3 design – perhaps at Gamescom. Eurogamer has dug up documents that appear to show a new super slim” version of the PS3 carrying the 4000 series label. Current PS3s are …

'Ideas are easy. Everybody in the industry has more ideas than they could fit in', says Warren Spector

Players won’t have the option of playing as a female character in Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer. And one gamer is not at all happy. So annoyed is Melissa K, in fact, that she’s started an online petition to make Gearbox reconsider its position. According to Brian Burleson, producer at Gearbox, …

Diablo III has been a huge success by any measure, but ardent fans of the series have been offered sympathy from Blizzard regarding the game’s lack of endgame”. With a single player play through time of around 15 hours, some have complained at the lack of activities available to gamers …

Both the PS4 and Xbox 720 will fail if they do not reject physical media in favour of digital distribution, the co-founder of Codemasters has boldly claimed. In what amounts to a scathing attack on games retail, David Darling stated: Sony and Microsoft cannot let the retailers dictate game prices …

Former Capcom strategic marketing director of online and community Seth Killian has been hired on as Sony Santa Monica’s lead game designer. His duties will include working on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, along with working with outside studios on other various projects. "Fighting games are very close to my heart, …

Bigpoint has announced Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms, an upcoming free-to-play browser MMO based on the hit HBO show. The setting for the game will be after the deaths of King Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark, and will unsurprisingly focus on the seven kingdoms revolving around the plot. Players will …