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Moving Picture Company to talk challenges of stereoscopic workflow at October 28th event

ORIGINAL STORY: Platform holder Microsoft has confirmed that there are 17 titles ready to arrive alongside its motion-sensing camera Kinect on November 4th. Microsoft’s four first party titles leads the line-up, which also includes four fitness games (five in the UK – see below), two dancing titles and a film …

A preview of NPD’s upcoming Games Industry: Total Consumer Spend Report has revealed that boxed, new game releases now account for just 59 per cent of the total video games market in North America. The report found that in the first half of 2010 US consumers spent $3.7bn on new, …

Helsinki developer Rovio still flying high

A guide to next weekâ??s Nottingham video game festival

3D Realmsâ?? third Duke Nukem title rebuilt with Epic tech

Buyers of the upcoming Back to the Future trilogy on Blu-ray will discover a pleasant surprise in the box – a free copy of the first episode of the upcoming Back to the Future game. The game’s developer Telltale Games told Joystiq, which made the discovery, that upon using the …

Publisher Square Enix has announced that it has extended the free trial period afforded to new players of the game has been extended for a further month following some negative feedback concerning the launch build the game. For those who purchased the collector’s edition and began to play one week …

Triple Town, developed by startup Spry Fox, launches on Amazonâ??s e-reader

Apple launched its Game Center connected gaming community for iPhone and iPod touch in early September, as part of its iOS 4.1 software. So how’s it doing? The company has not provided any official figures, but there is a certain amount of transparency built in to Game Center, since on …