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Though its official launch date remains unknown for now, German newspaper giant Bild has slipped a supposed launch date for the machine into a wider story about the device. The paper claims that the 3DS will launch in Japan on November 11th and then in Europe in spring 2011. A …

Activision boss says rivalâ??s hope to create studio independence is futile

Outspoken Activision publishing boss Bobby Kotick has in an interview with Edge magazine launched a scathing assault on rival EA, blasting the way it treats owned developers and claiming that no-one actually wants to work for the company. The core principle of how we run the company is the exact …

The Activision CEO on why his firm dropped the EA title

Ambitious MMO firm Trion admits its heavily VC-funded business will not give investors quick returns

Creative director Jason Kapalka talks about the project that got away

As predicted by one national retailer in secret last week, F1 2010 has fought off some heavyweight rivals to claim top spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week – and Codemasters is over the moon. To do so it had to outperfom new releases such …

Codemasters has cut short Halo’s stay at the summit of the All Formats Top 40, with F1 2010 racing to No.1. The game outsold both Halo: Reach (No.2) and Dead Rising 2 (No.3) combined and is the first F1 game to steal a lead at the top of the charts …

Having hit the headlines earlier this month thanks to an ambitious launch that involved selling key titles such as Halo reach for heavily discounted prices, online retailer GameTail has been forced to refund orders and cancel its full launch until 2011. Citing a dispute with PayPal, GameTail has already refunded …

CEO says its tech allows games to differentiate in the treacherous MMO market