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Daring indie publisher Rising Star Games has announced that it is to publish a second Cave shooter in Europe – DoDonPachi Resurrection. It follows on from the release of Deathsmiles on Xbox 360 last year. DoDonPachi Resurrection is already available in Europe on iPhone (as is Deathsmiles), but this is …

MCV talks to the previous winners of a Games Media Award. This week, it’s Eurogamer’s Martin Robinson. How did it feel to win a Games Media Award last year? Surprising, to be honest. I wasn’t expecting it, so was more than a little humbled by the whole thing. What do …

A slow start for the launch of the 3DS has bitten Nintendo hard. In its Q1 financials fro the period ending June 20th, the firm reported an operating loss of 7.7bn YEN ($483.6 million) and cut its annual profit forecast by 82 per cent from 175bn YEN to 37.7bn YEN. …

Seven teams already on board for September event in London

Just a year ago Red Faction was being touted as THQ’s golden child. It had a TV series on SyFy, it had a brand new game that hoped to build on the success of the impressive Red Faction: Guerrilla. But how quickly things change. Last night THQ reported a disappointing …

'The first PSP had 32 MG of RAM and we have about ten times that now', says studio boss

Sony sold 1.8m PS3 consoles in the quarter ending June 30th 2011. That’s around 600,000 fewer units than it sold in the same quarter last year. It’s a disappointing result for a machine that has shown such momentum in the last two years and looks set for a fantastic 2011, …

Nintendo of Europe has confirmed it will be reducing the Europeantrade price of 3DS to retailers by around a third from 12thAugust 2011. The news is part of the hardware’s global trade price reduction initiative. Nintendo does not set the price for hardware or software in Europe so "the ultimate …

Nintendo Australia has confirmed its plans to drop the suggested retail price of the 3DS in Australia and New Zealand, starting 12th August. The current SRP for the 3DS is AUD$349.95, and the price drop will see it retailing in Australia for AUD$249.95 or NZD$343.99 in New Zealand. Nintendo Australia …

40 per cent has been knocked off the price of the Nintendo 3DS just five months after its launch – and similar cuts are on the way for Europe and the US. Nintendo, speaking in its quarterly financials today, said it was dropping the price after lower-than-expected sales of the …