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Microsoft has for the first time said that it envisages a time when every firth party game produced for Xbox 360 will incorporate some level of Kinect functionality. "It’s not a mandate that everything we do in first-party has to support Kinect right now," Microsoft Game Studios’ boss Phil Spencer …

E3 2011: Iwata admits â??misunderstandingsâ?? over the new console announcement

WHEN AND WHERE IS IT? Gamescom 2011 will run from Wednesday, August 17th to Sunday, August 21st. The first day is only open to trade visitors and the media, with the show opened to the public from Thursday, August 18th.It will once again be held at the Koelnmesse international trade fair …

E3 2011: No Kinect support until FIFA 13

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 …