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The annual hype for Doctor Who is sure to boost the Wii/DS tie-in games this Christmas, says Koch. Doctor Who toys and merchandise are regularly big sellers each Christmas, and the show’s annual special episode (previewed tonight on BBC 1’s Children in Need) is one of the most-watched TV broadcasts …

â??Itâ??s time the UK was given the support it needsâ??

The PS3 has lead the way when it comes to 3D gaming on consoles – and new comments from Sony suggest that the PS3 could be about to take the lead in the still developing holographic sector. Earlier this month US academics predicted that holographic TVs will be available to …

Rare and Frontier among those using the display tech

Ahead of his Develop Liverpool keynote, Sony's Mick Hocking talks cutting-edge PS3 tech

Sony is assembling an arsenal of over fifty 3D games in its new assault on the home console market – with over twenty of those titles being built internally. Ahead of his ‘3D gaming’ keynote at this week’s Develop in Liverpool conference, SCEE studio director Mick Hocking said he will …

Polyphony boss says devotion to racing games has made him 'miss out' on other genres

And the tech can demand as little as 3ms of GPU time, says SCEEâ??s Mick Hocking

Just hours before Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 at last arrives at UK retail, publisher EA has said that its upcoming racer Shift 2: Unleashed can offer a more authentic driving experience” that Polyphony’s racer. If you look at Hot Pursuit and Gran Turismo, there is a big difference in those …

Gran Turismo 4 came out on PS2 in 2004. Back then there was no iPhone, free-to-play online Flash games were in their infancy and paying 50 for a new console release was perfectly reasonable. Fast forward to 2007. Nope, scrap that. 2009? No. Try again. Fast forward some more to …