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Global literary superstar J.K. Rowling has today announced a new digital expansion to the Harry Potter universe, Pottermore. Interestingly the project is being designed in collaboration with Sony, though there’s no indication of any video games tie-ins – presumably as Warner currently owns the video game rights. Pottermore will first …

German developer Crytek has admitted that its decision to target the wider games market with Crysis 2 has "backfired a little bit". The studio has been open about its intentions to bring the franchise to a wider audience. It has also said on record that it had reservations about Crysis’ …

Gabe Newell pleased with new consoleâ??s graphics performance

Respected UK games industry figure will take key prize at July 20th Develop Awards ceremony

Research has shown that 3D is on course to become a mass market product, but has yet to engage the majority of its audience. A study by Informa Media & Telecoms predicts that 3DTVs will find their way into 11m homes over the next five years, but less than half …

"Sorry, I might not have been clear. I was simply stating that@TechCrunch‘s article is not true." That claim was this morning made by PopCap’s community rep Jennifer Kye, according the Venturebeat. Shortly afterwards the tweet was deleted. While it may simply be a case of PopCap ensuring that employees stick …

PlayStation Home’s virtual world Aurora has been visited 1m times within its first six weeks online. The floating world – which allows users of PS3’s online Home service to play games and win avatar rewards – launched in March. It’s the work of publisher nDreams. During launch, a competition called …

Valve has become the latest games firm to show interest in Nintendo’s newest console. Speaking to Joystiq, at the Games for Change Festival, the company’s head and co-founded Gabe Newell said that the Wii U fits into Valve’s scalability model”. Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than …

Epic Games’ iOS blockbuster Infinity Blade will launch in Japan as a free-to-play game, a leading Japanese games company has said. Tokyo-based smartphone games giant Dena has won a contract to be the exclusive vendor of Infinity Blade in Japan, the company said. It will launch ‘Infinity Blade X’ as …

One leading tech site claims to have it on good authority that EA is on the verge of one of the largest acquisitions ever seen in the games industry. If true, TechCrunch‘s claims that EA is the mystery bidder behind a supposed $1bn swoop for PopCap would dwarf the $17m …