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Oxford tech studio and developer NaturalMotion has secured a deal with KFC that will see the fast-food giant sponsor a free version of the morpheme company’s Backbreaker game. The promotion, lasting a month, grants players acces to 10 specially selected ‘waves’ and a range of community tools which have, up …

Virgin Gaming has announced a new partnership with Ubisoft. The new games venture from Sir Richard Branson will be the online tournament provider for some of the publisher’s biggest multiplayer console titles, starting with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Ubisoft is one of the leading video game publishers in …

With Microsoft sending out mixed messages about the potential hardcore appeal of Kinect, Ubisoft has claimed that one of its first Kinect titles will really speak” to the core Xbox 360 audience. Last month Microsoft said that it’s developing controller-based games for the core and Kinect titles that appeal to …

Studioâ??s creative director perplexed by lone acting

E3 2010 wasn’t about the games. The software took a backseat in favour of 3DS, Kinect and Move. And although the titles on display certainly looked nice, there wasn’t much in terms of innovation. Except when you wandered by Ubisoft’s booth – the publisher’s E3 offering was by far the …

Around 6,000 retired NFL players have filed a class action lawsuit against EA over its use of their likenesses in the historic teams that featured in Madden NFL 09. According to a report on IGN, the lawsuit claims that publisher knowingly and intentionally” used the content in such a way …

PlaySpanâ??s microtransaction models integrated into Firefly

UI firm experiences massive year-on-year growth in major MMO market

When pressed about the long-term prospects of Nintendo at a briefing with investors, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has outlined how he believes the company will ride the turbulence created by falling sales of the WIi and DS. Last month Nintendo reported a 42 per cent year-on-year drop in income for …

Nintendo has already confirmed that development of the Wii 2 is well underway. But don’t expect any more information than that for quite some time, as president Satoru Iwata has told investors that the silence to ensure that the mystery tech will be a surprise. We are of course studying …