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Fallout: New Vegas will be released in the UK on October 22nd. Bethesda announced the release date for the highly anticipated RPG shortly after an E3 trailer for the game went live this weekend. The game will launch in the US three days earlier on October 19th. Bethesda has previoulsy …

With a PS3 price drop very unlikely to feature as part of Sony’s E3 press conference tomorrow, it looks as if Sony might instead be preparing a slight revision to its current home console. CVG reckons that the two new model numbers registered by Sony last week refer to new …

Creators of Okami and Devil May Cry working on biblical fantasy adventure

Former Microsoft casual boss to head up new Ubisoft department

We’ve previously seen photos of it under its previous moniker of Project Natal, but now Microsoft has released official picturs of the final product: Kinect. Scroll down for a look at the new controller, as well as a glimpse at the device’s Cirque de Soleil premiere in Los Angeles.

The same Italian website that outed the Kinetic rebrand for Microsoft’s Natal hours before Microsoft officially revealed the moniker at its E3 press conference has published the first pictures of the Xbox 360 redesign set for tonight’s E3 ress conference. A now-removed ad running at console-tribe.com showed a picture of …

Red Dead Redemption has retained its Number One position in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40, despite the release of long-awaited Super Mario Galaxy 2 last Friday. Rockstar’s multiformat adventure becomes the first game to achieve four consecutive number ones this year in front of Ubisoft’s Just Dance, …

Wii sales are sliding and Xbox 360 is showing a year-on-year dip. How has PS3 managed to buck the trend?We are still benefiting from the launch of the PS3 Slim at a different price point. This is related to the fact that we are getting more consumer recognition over the …

Today is arguably the most important day in the video games industry’s annual calendar – LA’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. Over the course of the next 48 hours all three platform holders will take to the E3 stage to outline why they think they have a winning proposition for the year …

2009 was a successful year for Nintendo globally, but sales did fall for Wii and DS. How did the European side of the business perform last year?This was the third best fiscal year in Nintendo’s history, despite declines in both sales and profits from records set in the preceding fiscal …