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Changes are afoot for the 2011 Golden Joystick Awards.Future Publishing this year will offer publishers the chance to unveil new content during the event. It mirrors similar opportunities available to firms at the Spike Video Game Awards in the US. Last year Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 3 and more were …

LevelUp gaming accessories will now be released in the UK through AntiGrav Media. The UK firm has signed an exclusive distribution deal with LevelUp, which is run by US-based Whalen Furniture Manufacturing. It specialises in gaming storage products for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, Rock Band and more. We have …

One of the most successful developers in the games business has lashed out on Twitter about what appears to be the cancellation of a mystery project. The thing that I spent one year delicately preparing became meaningless,” Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima posted on his Japanese Twitter feed, as …

Just moments after posting news of a possible return for the PlayStation Store in the next few hours, Sony has moved to quash the rumours. "PlayStation Network will undergo routine maintenance today," SCEE blog manager James Gallagher stated. "If you wish to play online during the maintenance, please ensure you …

Sony has announced that PSN will be shut down for essential maintenance tonight between 16:00 and midnight. Throughout this time the following services will be unavailable – PC registration, account management and account registration. Those signed in before 16:00 will remain logged in and can continue as normal, though logging …

CEO on the crisis talks at EA's darkest hour, and how far the firm has come from failure

Sony’s PSP Remaster series will offer HD visuals and online multiplayer but PS3’s Trophy system will not be included in the games. That’s according to Siliconera, which claims to have word directly from SCE Japan. It’s not hard to guess the reasoning behind the decision. Way back in 2009 Sony …

It’s something that most of us believed would never happen. Duke Nukem Forever is complete. It’s finished. It’s gone gold and being pressed onto disc right now. When the game eventually hits the shops it will mark the end of a 15 year journey that has spanned multiple platforms, decades, …

Amazon UK and Argos have stayed at last year’s number one and two spots respectively, while Tesco has knocked Play.com off the number three spot, moving it down one place to number four. Experian said that one of the fast moving sectors were department stores and John Lewis was one …

Microsoft will launch the successor of its Windows PC operating system next year, the company’s chief has revealed. Steve Ballmer said at a press conference in Tokyo that the new operating system would be optimised for tablet devices, PCs and a variety of different form factors”. Elsewhere in his speech, …