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Strong showings from all those present meant there really was something for everyone on hand, no matter which side of the industry fence you sit on. It was slick, well organised and very professional. Surprisingly, that’s not to everyone’s liking. I heard a few grumbles that without the intimacy, closed-in …

Blizzard has confirmed that its massively hyped PC strategy title StarCraft II has now sold in excess of 3m copies worldwide in its first month of availability. The game is already the best selling PC title of the year and the fastest selling RTS ever released. Amazingly, StarCraft II shifted …

UK broadsheet The Financial Times is claiming that Sony will use its presentation at consumer electronics trade show IFA to unveil a brand new iTunes-rivalling digital sales platform. The service will reportedly be fronted by both the PS3 and PSP though will at a later date roll out onto Vaio …

US developers encouraged to bring their games to the Japanese market

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has finally admitted that many countries will not enjoy voice recognition support for Kinect when the device arrives in Europe in November. In August MCV ran a story based on information given to it by Microsoft at Gamescom claiming that voice recognition would not be …

Japanese publisher Atlus has denied reports that it has been dissolved” by parent company Index Holdings. Speaking on the Atlus forums, site administrators claimed: Don’t worry, guys. This is just some corporate organizational maneuvering and won’t affect anything we do. Atlus is not becoming a mobile games company. The original …

After Microsoft dismissed claims last month that Kinect would not support voice recognition at launch, claims have now surfaced that only three languages will be ready for the device’s November arrival. Eurogamer reports that users enrolled in the ongoing Kinect beta test have discovered that only English, Japanese and Mexican …

Mirrorâ??s Edge publisher makes scathing accusations against the Edge Games boss

Studio will be a separate entity for owning group Catalis

Sony may have successfully (for now) curtailed sales of the first ever PS3 hack, but as feared the first clone of the device have appeared online – and more worryingly for Sony, it is free to download. Called PSGroove, the download allows PS3 owners to run unofficial code on their …