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Microsoft has announced the Kinect iteration of Brain Training will hit Europe in Q1 2011. During the platform holder’s keynote speech at this year’s Tokyo Games Show, Xbox Japan’s general manager Takashi Sensui revealed that the title will be released in North America and Europe early next year”. He also …

Luminaries from some of the most innovative and important companies in the games market have been confirmed for the London Games Conference on Thursday, November 4th. The event, which takes place at BAFTA, Piccadilly, will examine the challenges in an industry that is being driven more than ever before by …

Corona Game Edition and Corona SDK step into the world of cross-platform

One shock announcement to emerge from Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show press conference was that cult shooter Radiant Silvergun is scheduled for a surprise release on Xbox Live Arcade. The Treasure-developed game was previously released in both the arcades and on Sega Saturn in 1998, though was never published outside of …

Key execs from Bigpoint, EA, Playfish, Gaikai, GameStop, Capcom, Spil and Q Entertainment to speak at LGC

Online games studio makes three top-level hires in build up to spate of releases

Microsoft has stated that it is looking to address problems with some copies of Halo Reach that are preventing some gamers from playing the game. A number of consumers have claimed that their Xbox 360 consoles are unable to read the game disc. An isolated report on Maxconsole even went …

Japanese Mobage Town company expands presence in American territory

MCV can reveal that 300,000 copies of Microsoft’s Halo Reach were sold in the game’s first 24 hours on sale in the UK. This already puts Halo Reach at number ten in the all-time UK weekly sales league table, leaving it in prime position to climb the listings through to …

Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show press event has finally delivered what all the pre-release hype until now has failed to – a range of upcoming titles that will very much place Kinect at the centre of the hardcore games sector. In total five new games were revealed, including both exciting looking …