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Is London Games Festival definitely returning this year? When is it and what will it consist of? Yes it is; the Festival will run throughout October. The LGF is to make London a focus for Interactive Entertainment and to engage with media, consumers and Government. The London Games Festival is …

Aside from its 3D overhaul, Dutch developer Guerrilla has said that there will be another key difference between Killzone 3 and its predecessor – variety. I think what Killzone 2 suffered from was the amount of variety that was in the environments and the in the minute-to-minute stuff that you …

EA’s massively multiplayer online racer Need For Speed World will launch on July 20th. The game will only be available as a downloadable client at world.needforspeed.com, with a free version allowing gamers to access all race events up to level 10. Beyond that, players will need to purchase the Need …

Retailers have braced themselves for an iPad sales rush as the potentially lucrative device goes on sale in the UK for the first time today. Video games have become a major selling point for Apple’s latest touch-screen unit – with hundreds of titles available to download from the App Store …

Former Realtime Worlds release manager explains the studio switch

R&D fund for new facial animation tech gains boost from development agency

But Ninja Theory says its ready and raring with its latest project

New wide-ranging update for the social tool to launch next month

Having staved off some pretty fierce criticism of its controversial online-required DRM in some of its PC titles, Ubisoft has at last received a welcome spot of corporate backing from fellow publisher Namco Bandai. Speaking to CVG, Namco Bandai VP Olivier Comte says that Ubisoft’s method is not without merit. …

Having kept pretty quite about the game since it was first unveiled in October last year, Nintendo has announced that PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure will be released in the UK on July 9th. Players take control of recognisable series’ mascot Pikachu in what is described as the first Pokemon adventure …