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Develop 2010: Attendees bemused by reasons why the popular PSN title fell at early hurdles

Apple has removed a number of threads containing complaints about the iPhone 4 from its comment boards. According to Mac User, the vendor deleted comments that referred to an unfavourable review by Consumer Reports, the US equivalent to Which?. The referred article was critical of the widely reported antenna problems …

Develop 2010: Yet games such as Uno and Sudoku cover over 30 per cent of the digital store

Though opinion on the likely success or otherwise of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect camera remains divided, Caris & Co analyst Sandeep Aggarwal believes the camera could make as much as $1bn for the company in its first year on the market. Kinect could generate $2bn in incremental consumer spending on …

Sony’s ModNation Racers will receive a downloadable update that makes the game more accessible to casual gamers. A forthcoming patch for the game will introduce a casual career mode that pits players against less aggressive computer-controlled opponents. The new mode was announaced as part of the regular ModNation Monday post …

The ever-increasing number of Valve games made playable on Mac has been bolstered by another new title – Day of Defeat Source. Players who already own the PC game can download the Mac version for free via digital game service Steam. Developer Valve has also enabled cross-platform multiplayer which means …

With the expected big time E3 announcement” from Jason West And Vince Zampella’s new studio Respawn failing to materialise, the guessing game surrounding the developer’s huge summer blockbuster” continues. But industry analyst Michael Pachter reckons that the studio is not in fact planning to take on Activision in the crowded …

The launch of Microsoft’s Destination Arcade has been delayed until Wednesday, July 21st. The slip was revealed by the company’s Larry Hyrb on his Major Nelson blog, and will see the revamped interface mark the start of the latest Xbox Live promotion. Announced last week, Destination Arcade is a new …

The Nintendo 3DS won’t change in appearance before it hits shelves next year, the publisher has confirmed. When asked whether the look of the 3DS will change before release, Nintendo’s veteran game producer Hideki Konno told Wired: You can take this as the final shape.” The first DS was initially …

Having yet to deliver on the high hopes placed upon it by publisher Microsoft, the future of Remedy’s Alan Wake IP remains very much in the balance. NPD’s sales data for North America last month revealed that the game sold 145k units in May – not a terrible performance but …