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Key summer event returns on July 11th in Brighton

The organisers of the year’s Gamescom are running a London press meeting this Thursday at UKIE’s Wardour Street office. Billed as the chance to get the latest information from the organisers of this year’s Gamescom event in Cologne”, the gathering takes place on Thursday April 19th at 2:30pm. Drinks and …

Develop talks to the specialty's best about adapting games for the global stage

In just a matter of weeks Call of Duty 9 will likely be unveiled. But if you work at Activision, thinking about that now is supposed to irk you. Because yesterday the wider games media decided that Call of Duty has peaked. Modern Warfare 3 sales are 4.2 per cent …

It looks as if Microsoft is to break with recent tradition and release the new Halo closer to Christmas than it ever has previously. The Verge claims to have word from a reliable source” that Microsoft has internally set November 6th as the release date for Halo 4. Furthermore, it …

A new Super Mario game and Pikmin 3 for Wii U will make their debuts at E3, Nintendo has officially announced. News of the new games broke yesterday in a Spanish language interview with Nintendo’s development boss Shigeru Miyamoto. In a recent interview, Mr. Miyamoto confirmed that a new Pikmin …

Version 6.0 allows devs to mix native code with web technologies

Good news for Namco Bandai this morning – the publisher has claimed the lion’s share of Japanese software revenues for the second month in a row. Enterbrain’s numbers, as reported by Andriasang, show that the company accounted for 36.8 per cent of the overall software market – that’s nearly three …

Valve has released Steam’s top sellers chart for the week ending on April 14th. Newcomer Legend of Grimrock skyrocketed to the top of the list, with the first-person dungeon crawling RPG launching on April 11th. Wargame: European Escalation finishes in the runner-up slot, with Skyrim still hanging around at number …

Those looking forward to upcoming Vita action title Gravity Rush will be able to get a bit of a look around ahead of the full release via PSN. Sony has confirmed with Joystiq a demo for the title will release a couple weeks ahead of the title’s PSN and retail …