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Nintendo has announced that a special version of acclaimed portable multiplayer hit The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords will be offered to DSi owners as a free download. The announcement is part of the company’s 25th Anniversary celebrations for the cherished franchise. The Game Boy conversion will include new areas …

Develop explores what's going on at Playground, one of the UK's fastest growing triple-A studio

Gears of War 3 is released worldwide next Tuesday and Microsoft has announced that over 20,000 stores across the globe will open their doors at midnight. In the UK 479 GAME and Gamestation stores will open at 00:01 on Tuesday September 20th, with GAME’s flagship London Oxford Street store hosting …

At Freeplay 2011, Stephan Shutze, director and sound designer for Australian company Sound Library, demonstrated procedural sound effects using FMOD Studio. Shutze believes that thinking small in terms of memory allocation for sound effects doesn’t necessarily mean sacrificing good quality ambient audio. He demonstrated on-stage how placing a random amount …

You can never predict what Nintendo will do. Just a few weeks ago we were all laughing at the rumours of a second joypad accessory for 3DS. Then pictures arrived and we mocked them, saying that Nintendo would never release such an ugly attachment for its new handheld. It must …

Zynga is to hire another exec in the shape of Disney publishing chief Adam Sussman, a Disney spokesperson has confirmed. Sussman’s reign at Disney Interactive lasted less than a year, according to a report on AllThingsDigital. He is reported to have joined the company in January, following a spell at …

3DS platform holder Nintendo used a pre-Tokyo Game Show event last night to reveal a host of the new announcements for its new handheld. As if often the way when a company wants to inject a bit of retail life into a console, Nintendo revealed a new colour for its …

Fans of Gears of War 3 have one last shot at picking up the Epic Edition in a limited online-only offer from the EB Games web site. The Epic Edition had previously already sold out, and contains a 1.7kg Markus Fenix statue, a 96 page book on the art and …

Buried in a press release from Mattel is mention of a series of products coming out based on Halfbrick Studios’ successful Fruit Ninja franchise. The press release states that Mattel will be capturing ‘the essence of Fruit Ninja’s fast-paced play with an innovative line of table-top and card games inspired …

Nordic Games’ We Sing Rock will present the popular Bandaoke after-show entertainment at next month’s Games Media Awards. "Games press and the media at large have been very kind towards the We Sing range, repeatedly heaping praise in our direction," said Nordic Games’ sales and marketing director Nik Blower. "What …