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Ultimate Fighting Championship owner Zuffa LLC is taking Ubisoft to court over the marketing of Kinect game Fighters Uncaged. Zuffa claims a phrase on the back of the game’s box is confusingly similar to the use of UFC Marks, including the ‘Ultimate Fighting’ name and mark on Zuffa licensed video …

A new range of Dead Space merchandise is rolling out to make the franchise even bigger. EA is launching novel Dead Space Martyr, Blu-ray and DVD animated movie Dead Space Aftermath and comic Dead Space Salvage early next year to support the upcoming sequel to 2008’s third-person action shooter. These …

Capcom has announced Dead Rising 2: Case West will be released later this month. Case West will be made available exclusively through Xbox Live Marketplace on December 27th and will cost 360 owners 800 Microsoft Points. The game is a download-only sequel to Dead Rising 2, which hit shelves back …

Time to give us your thoughts on the 2011 jobs market

PC specialist Excalibur has hit out at leading publishers over their lack of support for retail in the digital marketplace. The firm – whose titles include Farming Simulator 2011, Bus Driver and Dive to the Titanic – believes publishers should work more closely with High Street retailers to develop new …

Earnings set to be processed monthly

Following the assurance yesterday that Kinect functionality will be supported in next year’s racer Forza 4, Microsoft has offered a little more detail on what exactly we should be expecting. Most importantly, the official press material for the title makes more than one reference to controller-based racing”, with Kinect seemingly …

The somewhat threadbare US SingStore is to be significantly beefed up with the addition of content that until now has only been available to European gamers. In addition, Sony has secured a new agreement with universal Music that will mean that all future digital track releases for SingStar will be …

Analyst Michael Pachter has lamented Nintendo’s reluctance to release a successor to the Wii this year, claiming that the decision will allow Sony and Microsoft to make significant strides into Nintendo’s core markets. Keep in mind that my early 2009 prediction of a Wii HD expressed my view that Nintendo …

Upcoming movie and game release Tron: Legacy is the focus of a new photo shoot by adult entertainment specialist Playboy. The pictures, which can be seen here, show Playmates Sasckya Porto and Irina Voronina sporting Tron-style bodypaint as well as the famous light cycles made so iconic by the 1982 …