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E3 is nearly upon us. But as the market transitions towards mobile and social, is it as relevant as it used to be? Rich Taylor of event organiser ESA tells Christopher Dring why E3 is stronger than ever… What’s changed about E3 this year? It is always evolving from year-to-year. …

Former EA and PlayStation product manager Kerri West has joined Namco Bandai. West joins as senior product manager following a two year stint at SCEE. Prior to this, she worked at EA for over three years on The Sims. Namco Bandai marketing and PR director Lee Kirton said: Kerri brings …

Publisher Atari says it is still committed to Europe despite putting its biggest EU asset, French studio Eden Games, up for sale. The company said in a financial statement it has put the developer’s assets on the market, and will instead focus on mobile and digital. Atari has appointed former …

Nintendo's next generation console will not receive support from Epic's upcoming tech

A new colour variant of the PSP will be released at UK retail in July. The Ice White PSP-E1000 will have an RRP of just 89.99. The PSP E-1000 was announced last August. It’s a trimmed-down version of the established hardware. As well as being heavier than other models, it …

And another E3 secret is spilt – this time it’s an Xbox 360 and PS3 version of CD Projekt’s The Witcher. The Witcher 2 was released for the first time on Xbox 360 last month, having previously only been available on PC. However, VG247 has word of retail listings from …

CCP Games is looking at more ways to sell real-life products to players in exchange for in-game money. The developer-publisher of popular PC MMO EVE Online – which has over 360,000 subscribers worldwide – recently offered gamers 100 Nvidia graphics cards in-game. They sold out in less than two minutes. …

Over half of Professor Layton gamers are female – a much higher profile than seen for the average game. This week we take a look at the GameVision Brand Map for Professor Layton. GameVision asked 6,729 gamers about this brand. 1,400 had played it within the last six months and …

Nintendo’s next generation console will not support the upcoming Unreal Engine 4, it has been revealed. UE4 is the next-generation of Epic’s very popular development engine. Its incompatibility with Wii U effectively locks Nintendo’s machine out of a wealth of third party multiplatform content. The confirmation came from SpikeTV host …

Technology taken from Microsoft’s Kinect is being used to help two future UK satellites dock whilst in orbit. Eurogamer reports that scientists at the University of Surrey and Surry Satellite Technology are planning to implement the tech into a planned mission called STRaND. Both satellites – which are each the …