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Peter Molyneux goes to great length to stress game isn't an on-rails shooter

E3 2011: Epic Gamesâ?? design director encourages industry to embrace the hacking community

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has described the company’s falling share price following the announcement of their Wii successor as very strange.” Honestly speaking, the reaction to [Tuesday’s] presentation and what I heard from people I met and the mood of the convention did not chime at all with what happened …

Despite grabbing lots of the E3 headlines with its impressive showing of the new Tomb Raider game, a senior Square Enix exec has said that this year’s show has painted a grave picture for Japanese games development. As well as Tomb Raider, other stars of Square Enix’s show this week …

UK publisher Codemasters has become the latest games company to see its online portal compromised by hackers. The company has warned customers that a breach on June 3rd resulted in the following data being compromised: Customer names and addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted passwords and order history. Other information …

iOS 5 and AirPlay combine on motion control, dual screen project

Website attack 'will only affect e-store customers and email subscribers', source says

The organisers of the E3 event in L.A. have closed out this year’s proceedings by dating the 2012 expo and releasing attendance figures for 2011. E3 2012 will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 5th to 7th. E3 2011 saw 46,800 people walk through its door, …

Police investigating April’s PSN security breach have made three arrests in Spain. Spong reports that Spanish officers "have identified the three detainees as leaders of the Spanish section of a group that calls itself Anonymous". It is alleged that one of those detained was in possession of a computer server …

Eric Hirshberg calls new handheld gaming generation a â??double edged swordâ??