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Developer Valve has teased fans with the prospect of an early release for the PC and Mac versions of Portal 2. This will occur if enough fans put enough hours into a collection of indie games available through Steam. The 13 games, brought together in what is being called the …

505 Games’ Zumba Fitness is still the UK’s No.1 video games according to the latest data from UKIE and GfK Chart-Track. It’s the second week the fitness hit has outsold every other title on the UK High Street. LucasArts’ LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars climbs one place to …

The boss of Nintendo America has said that the company went to great lengths to ensure that 3DS would be plentiful at launch and there would be no shortages. "I would characterise it as a launch where we learned significant lessons from the launch of Wii and we made sure …

Nintendo’s successor to the Wii is built with a custom IBM PowerPC with three cores”, an ATI-built GPU, and at least 512MB in memory, according to new unconfirmed reports. Nintendo has declined to comment on the validity of widespread hearsay regarding a successor to its home console. Information on Wii …

Battlefield 3 is getting an early push from EA with an FA Cup debut this weekend. Publisher Electronic Arts will premiere a trailer for the triple-A shooter during tomorrow’s Man U vs Man City FA Cup semi-final, on ITV1 – and the game isn’t even due until November. The ad …

Huge interest in the 2011 games design contest

'New controller has in-built sensor bar, features 6" touch-screen', report claims

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Today sees the release of Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson: The Experience on Xbox 360 and PS3. The game, which until today has been available only on handhelds and Nintendo Wii, takes the successful formula laid down by Just Dance and adds a healthy dose of the King of Pop. Last week …