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Maybe those execs were all just hungry. After all, you can spend so much time in E3 meetings that you don’t get to eat. But the analogies have a point: the market is evolving, and games are fracturing into different sizes. So why was that message absent from the showfloor, …

You can read my appraisal of the big takeaways from last week’s E3 online next week or in today’s copy of MCV magazine, but here’s the short version. Takeaway’s the fitting word to use here. No less than five times in formal interviews with VPs, studio heads and the like, …

Wrigglesworth and Lee named as seats fill up fast for Brighton event

EA boss John Riccitiello wants Call of Duty to rot from the core”. Or in other words, he wants Battlefield 3 to draw the hardcore gamers away from Modern Warfare 3, leaving Activision’s franchise to the mainstream consumers. A lot of people bought Modern Warfare more for the coffee table …

Zynga has taken legal action on Vostu for allegedly copying the design and content of a number of its games. The former claims its mega successful Facebook game CityVille has been replicated unashamedly by Brazilian firm Vostu in the form of MegaCity, reports TechCrunch. Let’s be clear – it is …

Sega team pleased with simplicity in developing for new Nintendo system

John Riccitiello believes Activision is "leading with its chin" when it comes to launching Elite. Speaking to Industry Gamers, the EA CEO believes that Elite would have been better off” launching after Modern Warfare 3 had been released, and that Activision pushing the service is a response to the quality …

US consumers are now able to rent games for $2 per day from Redbox kiosks across 21,000 locations. The service – previously detailed last October – has officially gone live today. Customers were previously only able to rent DVDs and Blu-rays from the self-service machines for $1 and $1.50 respectively. …

Gears of War 3 will not have a problem selling 6m units – so says the game’s developer. Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski is aiming high with a target of 10m copies, but believes the game will at least match the average sales of previous Gears instalments. They have …

OnLive hopes to be selling its game system in UK stores when the service is launched this autumn – and insists the High Street shouldn’t see cloud gaming as evil incarnate”. The OnLive game system consists of a micro console TV adaptor and a wireless controller. It enables users to …