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Nintendo’s third-party Wii U sizzle vid was packed with more blood, gore and aggression than a Rockstar game. Its first-party 3DS line-up was a range of fan-pleasers, not granny-ticklers. Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect range was also focused on the core, demoing how things like most talked about E3 game Mass Effect …

Can you spot the key word uttered by David Yarnton on this week’s cover that pinpoints the exact industry gear-change this E3 represented? Look again. It’s such a common word to most of us. It’s ‘gamers’, a word Nintendo treated like the plague in its well-fought seven-year crusade to change …

Activision UK will have a new MD from August as current boss Andrew Brown concentrates on Euro duties. Peter Hepworth will take over as UK MD for Activision in two months. He’s been with Activision since 2006, first as European CFO before moving up to become global sales and supply …

Nintendo has its eye on an even bigger addressable audience of gamers with its new Wii U home console. After courting new audiences for so long, the focus is back on a much-desired re-engaging of actual gamers alongside that skillful non-gamer push. Wii U pushes the boundary – it gives …

EA Games president Frank Gibeau has once again stated that Mirror’s Edge 2 hasn’t been killed.” We’re actively looking at how to bring it back in the right way,” he told GTTV. We love that franchise. The DICE guys really created something, I think, special the first time around. You’ve …

Nintendo researching whether Wii U can work with more than one touch-screen controller

Apple relaxes the developer guidelines for its App Store

Assassin’s Creed Revelations will go on sale in the UK on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 15th. It’s the fourth main console title in Ubisoft’s popular third-person action stealth franchise. The news comes following the announcement that an Assassin’s Creed game will be released for Nintendo’s newly revealed …

id Software boss says megatexturing isnâ??t sensible for certain game structures

EA Games boss says it is 'actively' looking to bring it back