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Online retail giant Play.com has had a makeover, with an emphasis on smoother navigation and tidier pages. The company claims the new site makes it even easier for consumers to find the product their looking for, either via the search bar or drop down menus that appear for each category. …

GDC Europe: Studios looking to make games on PSP successor will only have to pay â?¬1,900

GAMESCOM: An excitable Ken Rolsten announced that EA’s action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning will hit UK shelves on February 10th 2012. The veteran game designer enthusiastically led attendees to EA’s Gamescom 2011 press conference through the game’s features. These include a fast-paced addictive combat system,” variety of attacks and …

GAMESCOM: EA has detailed a swathe of new social networking features that will be packed into its upcoming extreme sports title SSX. Called Ridernet, it’s very much modelled on the Autorun system first introduced with Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. It will allow gamers to compete with friends who are …

GAMESCOM: Attendees at Gamescom 2011 were treated to the first live gameplay demo of Star Wars: The Old Republic. A team of eight players were hooked up online and took part in a large player-versus-environment mission in EA’s upcoming PC MMORPG. The first big operation in the game was showcased …

GAMESCOM: EA is to give another major IP the social network treatment with the announcement of Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes. The game will be free-to-play and available to all online, with Google+ Games in particular mentioned by BioWare’s Ray Muzyka as he took to the Gamescom stage for EA’s …

GAMESCOM: EA Sports is bringing its stylish football series back with a brand new game out early next year, boasting Football Club functionality. The publisher showed off the title at its Gamescom press conference in Cologne this afternoon. The game will be produced by the EA Sports’ football development team …

Speaking at GDC Europe PopCap’s director of online business Bart Barden has said the casual gaming company may look to work with EA’s established IP in the wake ofthe buyout by the publisher. "Everything will improve with EA," said Barnden at the Q&A session following his talk on localisation and …

GAMESCOM: New gameplay trailers have been released for a pair of the console sector’s hottest new titles. DMC is Capcom’s re-imagining of its popular Devil may Cry series. Development has been shifted out of Japan and handed over to Heavenly Sword and Enslaved developer Ninja Theory. Ghost Recon Future Soldier …

GAMESCOM: Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft will release three of its upcoming key Kinect titles in October. Frontier’s Kinectimals Now With Bears will hit retail on October 11th, followed by Dance Central 2 on October 21st and then Kinect Sports: Season 2 on October 25th. As this story goes to …