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The BioWare co-founders get the rapid-fire question treatment

A rattle or two in my brothers’ rusty Spitfires and MGs followed, but more memorable was a trip to a restaurant in a white Porsche 911 ten years later. The driver, Rod Cousens, was UK boss of Activision. He wanted to be interviewed and he paid for lunch. Chat focused …

The first flash car I scored a ride in was my Uncle Joe’s bright yellow Ferrari Dino. It was about 1976 and I was ten. He owned a chain of butcher’s shops and just might have been having a mid-life crisis. A rattle or two in my brothers’ rusty Spitfires …

GameStop plans to seriously grow its share of the European games market over the next 12 months. But it will do it through new e-commerce initiatives and alternative store concepts, the global retail giant’s International EVP Mike Mauler has told MCV. "Right now we have two stores in the UK …

Gran Turismo 5 will ensure 2010 ends with a bang as the last triple-A smash hit to roll out before Christmas. That’s according to Sony, which finally released its long-in-the-making PS3 racer on Wednesday. 2010 has been one of the strongest years in recent memory for quality game releases, and …

IGN UK has appointed a new PR manager – former Future Publishing man Will Guyatt. The UK’s largest game and entertainment editorial network has nabbed Guyatt to push forward its external comms and PR. He will report to IGN UK marketing director Rich Keen and plans to work with editorial, …

Crysis developer Crytek has announced its next title – PC shooter Warface. Yes, Warface. Set in the near future, the game will offer both player-vs-player gameplay as well as cooperative online multiplayer. It’s a PC-only title and will adopt the increasingly popular free-to-play model. The developers will monetise it through …

Sony’s recently released Gran Turismo 5 will receive a patch this weekend that will add some key extra functionality to the online aspects of the title – and address some of the issues that have clouded the launch. We received a lot of demands for having more regulations placed on …

Though the title hasn’t been officially revealed, a software engineer from Sony America’s R&D department has announced that a lightsaber game is coming to PlayStation Move – and that it’s a lot better than the Xbox 360 Kinect game that’s in the works. There’s no way Kinect can do a …

PC gaming is technically so far advanced compared to consoles that it is effectively ‘a generation ahead’, according to the boss of Crysis and Crysis 2 developer Crytek. PC is easily a generation ahead right now. With 360 and PS3, we believe the quality of the games beyond Crysis 2 …