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Payday: The Heist is a co-op first-person shooter in development for PC and PSN that puts you at the heart of illegal high stakes scores. Coming from Swedish studio Overkill Software, you take on the role of a hardened criminal and will be aided by three partners, either player-controlled or …

Call of Duty: Black Ops’ Escalation map pack will be released for PlayStation 3 on June 10th. The DLC features four new multiplayer maps and the Zombies mode’s new Call of the Dead expansion, which stars George A. Romero, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund and more. Black Ops’ developer Treyarch …

Ahead of Microsoft’s E3 press conference at 6pm tonight (which will be liveblogged right here on MCVuk.com) the first gameplay video for Star Wars Kinect has arrived online. You can see it, courtesy of BamarEnLive, below. Entertainment Weekly reports that the game, developed by Terminal Reality, will feature characters and …

Sony has registered trademarks for two terms that suggest its new handheld will indeed be called Vita. According to a member of NeoGAF, the platform holder has trademarked both the names PSVita and PlayStation Vita, as well as a logo. Vita is rumoured to be the final name of NGP, …

Nintendo has become the latest games firm to fall victim to an online data hack, the Japanese company has confirmed. A Nintendo of America affiliate server was breached a few weeks ago, but no consumer or company information was stolen. The news comes after Sony’s PSN service was taken down …

It’s now three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for Rockstar’s ambitious crime caper LA Noire. Behind it Disney’s LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean climbs one place to second with Codemasters’ Dirt 3 doing the opposite. The rest of the Top …

E3 2011: Gameplay video and info for Terminal Realityâ??s Jedi title unleashed

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This year at E3, two of the hottest titles on show will be Star Wars-based. A Kinect game that finally marries motion controllers with Jedi skills and lightsaber battles, and the MMO The Old Republic. However neither of them are developed or published by the ‘house of Star Wars’ itself …

The Microsoft-made Star Wars Kinect game will be prominent during the Xbox press conference next week. But how involved has LucasArts been in the game? We’re working closely with [Microsoft Game Studios] and their dev teams to create a completely new Star Wars experience for the Kinect audience,” says LucasArts …