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Mindscape and Universal Music have announced that Dance Paradise will go on sale as Kinect launches on November 10th. The new game will go up against rival Kinect motion-sensing dance titles at launch including Microsoft’s Dance Central and Konami’s Dance Evolution. Dance Paradise includes 40 hip hop, pop and dance …

Specialists may have driven the Halo: Reach launch excitement, but new research shows they are still losing ground to supermarkets. According to GfK Chart-Track, mass market grocers sold 29 per cent of all video games purchased during the first 34 weeks of the year. That’s an eight per cent rise …

Evolution Studios director Mick Hocking presenting Sonyâ??s 3D vision on the big screen

It might take a year or two to accomplish, but EA is intent on knocking Call of Duty from its perch. EA Europe SVP Jens Uwe Intat has told MCV that the firm wants the resurgent Medal of Honor to outgun Activision’s powerhouse series. The first Medal of Honor in three …

The technical specifications of Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS handheld have apparently been leaked. According to an IGN report, Nintendo’s upcoming handheld boasts; * Two 266MHz ARM11 CPUs* PICA-200 graphics chip running at 133MHz GPU* 4MBs of dedicated VRAM* 64MBs of RAM* 1.5GB flash storage If the data is accurate, then it …

UK newspaper The Dail Mail has published an extensive story asking if addiction to video games can be likened to an addiction to heroin. Beginning with menacing introduction despite the restricted view through the letter box, it was clear that something was terribly wrong on the other side of the …

Having kicked off its ‘participation’ in the pre-owned market via the inclusion of exclusive DLC for new buyers of Mafia II, publisher Take-Two has said that it will continue to explore ways in which it can generate revenue from second hand sales. Speaking at the G7 Think Equity conference, as …

Strategic partnership will see publishing giant use Unity engine across multiple franchises and formats

An un-named development source has allegedly told Kotaku that Project Milo has been shut down. Milo was the first piece of Kinect (then Natal) software to be publicly demonstrated by Microsoft and remains one of the most fascinating titles in development for the platform. However, these fresh reports claim that …

AUDIO SPECIAL: Pit Stop MD John Sanderson explains audio outsourcing across the Atlantic