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Master Chief is not the only one making a comeback – the COG forces will return in a brand new Gears of War title. The shadowy teaser image you can see to the right is the cover of the latest issue of GameInformer, and the US mag reports it is …

Activision is targeting the die-hard Transformer fans with its pre-order DLC offering in the US for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. The publisher has announced that customers who pre-order the game from either GameStop or EB Games in the US will receive a code to unlock a generation one version of …

A new chapter in the chronicles of troubled hard man Sam Fisher will be revealed by Ubisoft at E3, rumours would have us believe. It will be called Splinter Cell: Black List, IGN reports, and is scheduled for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U in January 2013. Although …

Develop's Audio Special continues with advice from Side

Once again the issue around calculating digital sales data towards the industry’s charts and research data has become a talking point. Last week MCV discussed the suggestion that Blizzard’s Diablo III would have topped the charts if digital sales from Blizzard’s Battle.net store had been included in retail charts. GfK …

Sini Downing offers advice on handling the logistics of voice production for MMOs

Bethesda has released the long awaited first trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s first DLC release. Called Dawnguard, the expansion will be released this summer on Xbox Live for 1,600 (13.70) Microsoft Points. In the video we see a darker take on the Skyrim world, with players invited to …

Sports Champions 2 and DanceStar Party Hits will be released on PS3 for PlayStation Move later this year. SC2 is a sequel to Move’s best selling title to date. It includes new events such as boxing, golf, bowling, skiing and tennis. It can support both single of twin Move controllers …

While ISFE boasts an impressive survey of European gamers, NPD is for the first time sharing its data on non-new, non-boxed video game sales in the UK via MCV. Its latest report in the Q4 2011 spending on areas like pre-owned, rental, subscription and digital games reveals just how big …

With the backing of Activision, Disney, EA, Microsoft, Namco Bandai, Sony, Take-Two and Ubisoft, ISFE says its new pan-Euro data is the industry’s best. The Interactive Software Federation of Europe unveiled GameTrack at a breakfast briefing in London this week, attended by key publisher representatives including EA’s Europe chief Jens …