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Microsoft has gone live with its brand new look and design for its Steam-rivalling Games for Windows Marketplace. Prices include BioShock 2 for 14.99 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare or World at War for 19.99. Users can filter games by Windows Live compatibility. And as a Microsoft portal, users …

Develop talks to the firm that will bring RTWâ??s failed MMO out from the darkness and into free-to-play

A new casual online games portal has emerged driven by a host of industry veterans. TeePee Games will allow users to pull in games from Facebook, smartphones, websites and elsewhere, and customise their own individual homepage. The company and self-titled website has already secured $500,000 in seed funding, and is …

Microsoft will unveil a Gears of War title that is designed for Kinect at the Spike TV Video Games Awards, according to rumours on IGN. Coming from a reliable source”, the site claims not to know if it is a brand new title or an existing version of the game …

World of Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has moved to quash rumours that a version of Diablo III will be appearing on consoles. Chatter erupted yesterday following the appearance of a job listing for a Senior Producer – Console” in the Diablo III section. The vacancy calls for an applicant …

The boss of SCEA’s Latin America division has said that PlayStation Move has exceeded the company’s expectations and that it’s struggling to keep up with demand in some key regions. Calling Move ‘a tremendous success’, Latin America general manager Mark Stanley told Industry Gamers: We’re actually continuing to catch up …

Develop looks at five companies at the heart of the development cluster in Nova Scotia

Retail’s defence of pre-owned is a simple one. Consumers trade in their games so they can buy new ones. It helps inflate sales of newly released titles, and the specialist retailers all have stats to back up this claim, too. But unfortunately that argument has broken down now the likes …

Microsoft claims it has sold over 1m Kinect cameras in the 10 days since the device first launched. According to Xbox chief Don Mattrick, the firm is still on track to sell 5m units by the end of the year. Kinect launced in North America two weeks ago, and a …

Two of Ubisoft’s biggest titles of 2011 have been delayed. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Driver: San Francisco were due for release in Q1 2011, but have now been pushed back until the publisher’s next financial year – which falls between April 2011 and March 2012. The announcement emerged as …