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EA has announced that FIFA 12 will mark the launch of a brand new social networking-style service: EA Sports Football Club. The service will be free of charge and launches with the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of the upcoming sports games. Accessed through the game or easportsfootball.com, this …

Mass Effect 3 will arrive worldwide on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012, EA has confirmed. The third instalment in EA’s popular sci-fi RPG series, developed by BioWare, sees protagonist Commander Shepard leading an assault to save Earth from alien species the Reapers. It will feature Kinect voice gesture capability, with players …

Sony has announced its next generation portable, PlayStation Vita, will launch this Christmas. The launch window was confirmed by Sony’s corporate executive officer and executive VP Kaz Hirai during the platform holder’s E3 press conference. Hirai also officially announced the rumoured Vita is indeed the name for the new handheld, …

At its E3 press conference last night publisher EA confirmed what we had suspected – that Battlefield 3 is to beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to market. The game will be released in the UK on October 28th, three days after it arrives in the US on October …

Will it be called the PlayStation Vita? Either way, the world can’t wait for more information on Sony’s handheld. But don’t think it ends there. Expect plenty more from the buoyant platform holder in tonight’s press briefing. For all the news the very moment it happens head down to our …

iPhone manufacturer has paid app developers over $2.5 billion in royalties

Just Dance 3 will be the first multi-format entry in the best-selling franchise. Ubisoft has announced that its dance hit will be released for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii and will utilise both Kinect and PlayStation Move. It will be released on October 11th. Each version will have exclusive new …

Ubisoft is to publish the official video game tie-in for this year’s movie The Adventures of Tintin. The Paramount film is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, with Peter Jackson also assisting in production duties. The game is being developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and Paramount Digital Entertainment. Its narrative will …

Kinectimals developer to deliver new family title; Disney studios left out of the loop

As well as announcing Far Cry 3 in LA tonight, Ubisoft has also lifted the lid on a fourth outing in the Brothers in Arms series. Called Brothers in Arms Furious 4, the game will once again be developed by Gearbox though this entry is promised to "spin the series …