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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is considering purchasing a controlling stake of the struggling social network MySpace, according to reports. Kotick had been approached by an unknown investment group about buying News Corp’s online network, which has lost considerable ground to Facebook. Three insiders, speaking to Reuters, say Kotick has …

Martin Good, executive VP of THQ’s kids, family and casual games label, isn’t shaken by Nintendo’s newly announced Wii U. The uDraw series hasn’t been around for a whole year yet, but the capabilities and functions of the Wii U controller could displace THQ’s purpose-built tablet if Nintendo was to …

E3 2011: Alan Wake studio outlines financially successful first iOS excursion

New hardware, new games, flashing lights, corporate big knobs and lots of excited yet excruciatingly tired journalists. It’s E3 as we know it and 2011 ticked all of the boxes. But now that the curtains are being drawn on this year’s event, what impression has been left? To my mind …

Some Kinect features 'make everything better in games', says Phil Spencer

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has said that cloud gaming will potentially completely alter the structure of the videogames industry, providing it can surmount immediate business and scalability obstacles. Speaking to Gamasutra at E3, Yerli noted: "Gaikai as well as OnLive, they’re pioneers in that [area]. But I also think that …

The gamepad screen at the heart of the Wii U experience displays at a 854×480 resolution, according to new research and estimates. Entertainment site Golgotron claims the Wii U controller screen displays at the wide-VGA display standard. The factual basis to this claim is debatable. The resolution size was estimated …

E3 2011: This year's event attendance numbers up, next yearâ??s dates set

Sony’s PlayStation Home has reached all-time high user activity levels since PSN was switched back on. The PS3’s in-game social world has just reached a new milestone in terms of its amount of weekly unique users, Gamasutra reports. We’re having record traffic in Home,” said SCEA’s director for PlayStation Home …

Saints Row: The Third will be released in November on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, developer Volition has confirmed. The sandbox gangster game and GTA rival will arrive in the US on November 15th and three days later in the UK on November 18th. Volition’s senior producer Greg Donovan told …