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The Xbox Live Gold Family Pack will cost 69.99 for UK 360 owners. Microsoft confirmed the price of the new Gold subscription pack to Eurogamer, giving it a relatively similar price point to the US version. Consumers across the pond will have to pay $99 for a year, which currently …

The BBC has confirmed that it intends to bring the new and improved iPlayer 3 application to the PS3. BBC product manager Simon Cross told TechRadar that the update has already been planned in as part of iPlayer’s 2010 roadmap. iPlayer 3 was rolled out online at the beginning of …

Sell-out expected for creative sector's biggest night of the year

Nintendo of America’s COO and president Reggie Fils-Aime has attacked the belief that sales of Wii software are tracking below the industry norm. Speaking to investors, the colourful exec claimed: Life-to-date software sales for the Wii are dramatically higher than a similar point in time for the PS2. As for …

The digital distribution offering for the 3DS will be different to that seen with the likes of DS or Wii, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has stated. I can’t go into detail on what the plans are today, but of course, with a device like Nintendo 3DS, we do intend to …

High development costs and a software line-up that seems geared to the core games market – on the face of it the 3DS doesn’t seem to be picking up where the mass-market DS is leaving off. But Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has stated that he hopes the 3DS can help …

The 3DS may add new functions to the robust Dual Screen Nintendo handheld platform – but that comes at a cost. And according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata when it comes to making games for the device development costs will be comparable to making a game for the Wii. "As …

Nintendo president Iwata says new handheld game production is comparable to Wii

Total global sales of Apple’s latest tech sensation,the iPad, have now reached 3m units in less than three months on the market. iPad previously hit the 1m sales barrier at the beginning of May. In the following month that total hit 2m. Since then the device has launched in a …

Microsoft has offered up a very simple explanation for the lack of hardcore games currently set to support the upcoming Kinect motion camera – the device isn’t aimed at the core market. Instead, the company has said that its motion titles and traditional joypad-based games are aimed at very different …