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Minister for Culture confirmed for key event, but will he give the industry what it wants?

The next instalment in the Doctor Who Adventure games series will be made live on the BBC website this Saturday (June 26th) following the airing of the current TV series finale. Dubbed Blood of the Cybermen and produced by Steven Moffat, it will again feature the likenesses of Matt Smith …

Microsoft has insisted that the Xbox 360 is just as 3D ready as the PS3, though has once again iterated that it’s not diving headfirst into the 3D sector just yet. We have 3D games,” Xbox global marketing boss Albert Penello told CVG. Obviously the Avatar game came out last …

As well as asserting its position as the world’s no.1 third party publisher in 2010, Activision has a secondary objective – improving its image amongst the core games market. The publisher’s reputation has taken a bit of a battering in the last couple of years. Its decision to price Call …

Though Microsoft says it will not be unveiling an RRP for Kinect until closer to its launch later this year, the platform holder’s online store is now taking pre-orders in the US for $149.99. The listing, which was spotted by VG247, also states that the SKU will include a power …

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Annual event consolidated as part of Learning Without Frontiers conference series

Having done away with the iconic ‘Red Ring of Death’ in the redesigned version of its Xbox 360, Microsoft has also introduced further safeguards to protect against the console’s patchy reliability record. It has emerged that the redesigned Xbox 360 S will automatically shut down if it detects that its …

With the Xbox 360 S making its way into the hands of its first US customers, Microsoft has confirmed to IGN that it will introduce a low-price $199 version this autumn. The ‘Arcade’ version of the hardware was first confirmed at last week’s E3 event. It’s still not yet known …

More details are emerging about Nintendo’s intended scope for its new 3DS handheld – with latest comments from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata suggestion newspaper and magazine content functions like those seen on the Kindle and iPad In a new interview with Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Iwata said the online functions of …