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Luke Reilly, editor and mainstay of Australian Official Playstation Magazine for 8 years, jumped ship to yesterday become the games editor at IGN Australia. Reilly told MCV: "It’s with much sadness I leave a magazine I’ve been some part of since late 2003. It’s actually over 90 issues, from freelancer …

You have to wonder why it bothered in the first place. Having once seemingly learnt its lesson regarding the DRM it implements on its PC games, for reasons unbeknown to anyone other than itself Ubisoft decided to re-enter the battleground by including always-on” DRM in recent release From Dust. And …

Critics have been getting to grips with Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution for over three weeks now. And at long last the embargo has lifted, allowing them to admit their admiration for what is clearly an excellent title. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game are currently …

Rugby World Cup 2011 is now being sold at all major retailers in Australia and New Zealand, before its official release date. Tuff Kat Entertainment, local distributors of the game, have confirmed to MCV that the official release date is still Thursday 25th August. Regardless, EB Games, GAME and JB …

Speaking at Freeplay 2011, Luke Muscat, lead designer and executive producer at Halfbrick, talked about the lessons learned which led to Fruit Ninja’s creation. The team at Halfbrick looked at Rocket Racing, their previous and unsuccessful title, and other casual games achieving big success. Muscat comments: "Fruit Ninja was a …

Ubisoft studio manager says digital is now the place for start-ups to grow

Ubisoft has revealed that upcoming release Driver: San Francisco will receive a full digital release on the PlayStation Network. Though no firm release date for the PSN version was given, Ubisoft Reflections MD Garth Edmonson told a Gamescom panel last week that it would arrive in a few weeks”, suggesting …

Internet speeds won't meet meet triple-A capacities any time soon, Cerny says

Eurogamer has announced that Bethesda’s much hyped RPG The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo that kicks off on September 22nd. It’s the first chance that the general public will have to get their hands on the game, which will be released in the UK …

The pre-owned games sector is very beneficial to the health of the overall games sector, retailer GameStop has argued. Though they rarely express the opinion publicly, many publisher execs consider pre-owned games as unfairly robbing them of revenue that is instead reserved exclusively for retailers. But GameStop’s executive VP Mike …