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With a release potentially just a few short weeks away, Microsoft has released a new trailer for Kinect Star Wars. The short sees Everwood, The OC and Moneyball star Chris Pratt re-enact the famous confrontation between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi from Episode IV. The game itself is due to …

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Modern Warfare 3 emerged triumphant, but it was EA that was last year’s real victor. MCV analyses the full 2011 GfK?Chart-Track charts to unearth the winners and losers in a challenging year for the boxed games market. It was another year in which Call of Duty and FIFA take the …

Ten thousand dev hopefuls expected to take part

Rumours believed to have stemmed from China’s notorious Foxconn manufacturing plant suggest that iPhone 5 might be released as early as the summer. With iPhone 4S having only arrived in October 2011 – and that some two years plus after iPhone 3GS – a June or July launch would appear …

Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac has said that it’s work on the PS3’s Resistance series is over. We won’t be making any more Resistances,” Insomniac CEO Ted Price told VG247. That’s not to say, of course, that the series won’t live on. But if it does, Insomniac won’t be involved. …

Flagship Intent Media publication expands further after successful Pacific launch

Publisher delegates work to hundreds of staff overseas; Core 150 team in Japan

Quantic Dream director to give sixty-minute lecture