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Move is a major new member of the PlayStation 3 family, but it isn’t designed to reinvent the format. Whereas Microsoft views Kinect as a rebirth for its Xbox 360, Sony sees Move more as an add-on – another reason to buy a PS3 alongside 3D, Blu-ray and PSN. And …

Popular racing series coming to arcade cabinets

Tomorrow marks the arrival of PlayStation Move on the UK High Street – and perhaps it’s not surprising to see Tesco undercutting the rest of the market to offer the new controller at the lowest price. Online portal Tesco Direct is currently selling the PlayStation Move Starter Pack for just …

San Francisco studio set for rapid growth

British institution gets gaming makeover

With the release of Halo Reach just days behind us the video games industry is already bracing itself for the second big launch of the week – the PlayStation Move. Though PS3 has always supported motion to a limited extent via the SixAxis controller, Move takes motion control on the …

Sony has stated that it’s on track to sell the 15m units it had forecast in the year ending March 2011 and that the machine is now selling at a better rate than the company had forecast. As of the end of August, sales look a bit better than we …

Firm behind the RealPlayer says social is gamesâ?? growth sector

OpenFeint partnership integral to new business plan

Most companies are already active in what they would call the digital space (a catch-all jargon for routes to market outside of the traditional channel). But are they doing it right and will they be doing it tomorrow? That’s what The London Games Conference aims to find out. Every year, …