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It may have taken its time in getting to market, but the long wait for Gran Turismo 5 has rewarded Sony with a welcome UK No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. To claim the crown Polyphony Digital’s racer had to topple the mighty Call of Duty: …

Supplies of both Xbox 360 Kinect and PlayStation Move are not as short as either Microsoft or Sony would have you believe, US analyst Michael Pachter has claimed. Last week Sony stated that it had misjudged the demand for the stand-alone Move controllers” and that we have a catch-up problem …

A major title update for MMO title Final Fantasy XIV has been released that Square Enix hopes will address some of the major criticisms that have been levelled at its titles in its opening weeks. The game has already twice had its free trial period extended as Square Enix tries …

In the future Sony could choose to upgrade its motion controller Move via firmware updates over PSN – but the platform holder has said that the device is accurate enough for the time being. We can certainly update it through firmware – the real question is, do we want to?” …

Iconic games developer Jade Raymond has confirmed that she is heading up the team working on Splinter Cell 6. The game is currently in development at Ubisoft’s Toronto studios, with 83 people having already been hired for the project. In a promotional Ubisoft video we’re told that concept artists, animators …

The 800-capacity Toronto base now has 83 staff ahead of schedule

As any keen gamer will know, this last Q4 has proved very expensive for anyone looking to buy all of the big console releases – and one of the co-founders of BioWare thinks it’s a big problem. There’s too many games released today,” Ray Muzyka told sister site Develop. It’s …

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