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Gamers can expect regular software releases to be very much the norm with its upcoming 3DS handheld, according to Nintendo president Saturo Iwata. Speaking to a Japanese newspaper, as translated by Andriasang, Iwata made the following pledge: "It’s important that you be able to supply software with no pause. With …

If the console race is to be decided on the number of triple-A games headed to each console then Sony already has the 2011 hardware title in the bag. Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, the platform holder has named 20 titles that will exclusively be hitting the console in …

Plant vs Zombies studio to double size of 60-man studio

Collaboration can secure future of Britain's games industry

Studio general manager Paul Breslin talks plan to double headcount at Euro headquarters

Nintendo’s latest Pokmon duo will be released in the UK on March 4th. The date for Pokmon Black and White means the two games will hit the High Street two days before their US debut, according to Official Nintendo Magazine. More than 2.6 million copies were sold between the titles …

Microsoft has pledged to create 4,000 new jobs in the UK as part of a major government initiative. The Windows, Xbox and search engine giant is one of 19 organisations taking part in a new Downing Street scheme to boost the private electronics sector. It is not known which areas …

Record-breaking entrant numbers for the 2011 Independent Games Festival

A compatibility software engineer has managed to port an image taken from Kinect into the PC world-building game Minecraft. Nathan Viniconis explained on his personal blog how developers could utilise depth camera on Kinect and repurpose the data as a full 3D object within Minecraft’s block-built environments. Viniconis’s day job …

The popularity of Blizzard’s MMO World of Warcraft shows no signs of abating with news that the latest expansion for the title has broken another record in the PC market. The developer has revealed that WoW: Cataclysm sold an amazing 4.7m units worldwide in its first month of release – …