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The war against PS3 piracy has reached a new intensity with news that the home of a German hacker has been raided by police. Sony has confirmed to Kotaku that the raid on the property of hacker "graf_chokolo" did take place. it’s understood that police seized PCs and PS3s. A …

It was a question that was asked over and over again after MCV published an opinion piece voicing concern over the content of the Dead Island trailer – will the emotion so successfully depicted be a core component of the actual gameplay? Emotion can still be a tricky subject for …

Facial animation giant ships tech with significant upgrades

The co-founder of Glasgow based animation studio Axis has spoken out on his company’s decision to depict the death of a young girl in the hugely popular trailer for Deep Silver game Dead Island. The animated short has had a tremendous reception from the media, though some outlets (such as …

Axis Animation discusses careful choices made when building a three-minute zombie video that rocked the industry

The fate of Leamington Spa developer FreeStyleGames remains in the balance, but studio management say positive discussions with Activision continue. Earlier this month, the studio was incorrectly rumoured to have lost staff on the eve of Activision’s financial call. FreeStyleGames has not reported any staff cuts, though that remains a …

Develop goes behind the scenes on the video that rocked the games industry

Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Iain Lee, Chris Moyles, Snoop Dogg – the list of celebrities who openly express their love for gaming is consistently growing. But aside from Charlie "the games journo who done good" Brooker we’ve for years been desperately short of respected TV faces with the capacity and …

Publisher THQ has announced that it will release its licensed kids title Rio on April 12th in the US. That’s just three days before the release of the film at US cinemas. A UK release date for the game has not yet been confirmed, though with the film hitting UK …

Vietnam has moved to block gamers from playing online at night. The country’s Ministry of Information and Communication has asked internet service providers to block access to online games after 10pm, according to Vietnam News. The initiative is to counter potentially harmful side effects from playing these titles. Provincial departments …