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There are less than three months to go to book your place at E3 Expo 2011. The global games event takes place from June 7th through June 9th at the Los Angeles Convention Center and is where entertainment intersects with technology and the future of the computer and video game …

General manager of free-to-play division makes a shock departure from publisher

Sony Ericsson’s long-awaited Xperia Play finally launches in the UK tomorrow – but only one of the four major mobile operators will be stocking it. This morning Vodafone confirmed that stock problems meant that it would not be able to offer the handset as planned tomorrow morning. O2 had confirmed …

Nintendo’s Wii will get yet another new music game at the end of next month – Musiic Party. Published by DTP and distributed by PQube, the game will hit retail on April 29th with an SRP of 19.99. It’s twist is that it offers musical instrument based gameplay without the …

'...iOS devices could be capable of Unreal DX11 technology in two years'

Activision has announced it-s latest licensed Marvel web-slinging game due out this autumn – Spider-Man: Edge of Time. Developed by Beenox, which was also behind 2010 outing Shattered Dimensions, the game will feature both the Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 universes. The action will be spread across the two evolving …

Unreal Engine boss thinks the App Store will soon have its own 'Avatar blockbuster'

Sky1 sports panel show A League of Their Own will from tomorrow feature an Xbox 360 as part of a product placement deal between Microsoft and the broadcaster. In December of last year Ofcom finally gave the nod to legal product placement on UK TV shows. The change came into …

A clear picture of the total number of consoles sold in Europe has emerged today. According to IDG data released by GameStop, the active European games console market in total is around 153m units. 114m of that are current gen machines, which breaks down like this: – 14.7million Sony PlayStation …

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