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Codemasters is to use ITV’s Champions League coverage to propel its upcoming console and PC title F1 2011 into the public limelight. The game’s debut 30” TV ad will be aired on the evening of Wednesday September 14th during ITV’s Champions League match. EA recently used the heavyweight Premier League …

The industry’s hacking woes have alleviated significantly in recent weeks, but a fresh attack today has acted as a reminder of the danger that potentially lays in wait. VentureBeat reports that Star Wars Galaxies fan site SWGalaxies.net has seen 21,000 email addresses and 23,000 passwords stolen by hackers. All of …

Publishing giants Future and Gawker have announced an agreement to bring a localised version of tech blog Gizmodo to the UK market. Gizmodo UK will be published by Future when it launches in the UK this autumn. It joins Future’s current online tech brands TechRader, T3 and MacFormat. The site …

Limbo studio insists it has no interest in being bought out

Square Enix title Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the second best selling game in the UK in August. And it achieved this despite only being on sale for 48 hours of UKIE Gfk Chart-Track’s August tracking period (July 31st – August 27th). The only title able to better it was …

A visual guide to the inventive stereoscopic 3D hardware

I have a right hand and a left hand. For the purposes of this article, my right hand shall be called mAStaK1lla. He represents the gamer and the consumer in me. I like great deals on new titles and am delighted when games turn up early. For the sake of …

Futuristic head-mounted display to launch in Japan

PlayStation 3 platform holder Sony will launch a 3D-enabled head-mounted display in Japan this November. It was first shown off to the public at CES earlier this year. The device incorporates two 720p OLED screens that give the user the impression of viewing a colossal image and also incorporates 5.1 …

Both cloud gaming firms now competing for web-embed agreements