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GAMESCOM:As if the hype for Warner’s Batman: Arkham Asylum wasn’t enough, the publisher has now confirmed that the game will ship with both stereoscopic and anaglyphic 3D functionality. All three of the game’s SKUs – Xbox 360, PS3 and PC – will support the technology. To use the 3D gamers …

GDC Europe: Company president Mike Capps says the PC has again become a primary target

A Dutchmagazine has foundthat Apple manipulated images in the firm’s successful application to a German court to have Samsung’s competing Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned from sale in the EU. Apple’s complaint centred not on hardware patents but rather the ‘look and feel’ of the tablet which the complaint pictured side-by-side …

Samsung tablet image said to be closer to iPad than in reality

We R Interactive, a social gaming specialist and publisher of football title I Am Playr, has announced the appointment of former Liverpool Football Club MD Christian Purslow as its new non-executive independent director. The move follows Purslow’s personal investment in the company, which it says is his first since leaving …

Nintendo’s decision to slash the price of 3DS has seemingly had the desired effect in Japan. Though MCV is not able to publish UK sales figures, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain (via Andriasang) has revealed that 3DS sales jumped significantly in Japan following the decision to cut the handheld’s price from 25k …

Fewer, bigger, better. That seems to be an increasingly common trend amongst traditional console games publishers, and THQ’s executive VP of core games Danny Bilson is all for it. That’s all we can really do,” he told VG247. It’s not just Activision or us; look at what EA’s doing on …

The Interactive Media Institute (IMI) at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia is set to host GAME, a 3 day event featuring prominent figures in the games sector. The event, which will run from October 27-29, is comprised of a videogames festival, academic conference presentations, and a public debate. Keynote speakers …

GAMESCOM:Signs are increasingly pointing to a big return for Hideo Kojima’s Zone of the Enders IP. An image posted to Twitter by Kojima himself clearly shows both a ZOE model and, far more interestingly, a background logo that clearly says ‘ZOE 3DS’. Kojima’s accompanying Tweet simply asks What’s this?”, so …

The Australian Federal and State government is pushing the Interactive Skills Integration Scheme (ISIS) forward to employ game developers outside the sector. The scheme’s aim is to advocate several pilot programs, which will see games development and interactive media professionals employed in one of the ‘pilot businesses’, each of which …