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Mindscape takes its first steps into the digital games space next month with the release of U-Sing: Girls’ Night. The karaoke title, which is released on June 18th, will arrive with the launch of the U-Sing Wii Store. This online service allows Wii owners to download new tracks that can be …

THQ expects upcoming title Big Beach Sports 2 to become one of the best-selling titles on the Wii. The game follows in the footsteps of 2008’s Big Beach Sports, and is the third title in THQ’s Big franchise after last year’s Big Family Games. The original Big Beach Sports became …

Andrew Smith discusses best, and worst, practice for generating game ideas

Developer Blizzard will use a one-off Battle.net activation as its way to safeguard upcoming release StarCraft II from piracy. It’s opted for this approach over the use of DRM as it believes both that fighting piracy is, in its words, a losing battle” and that its developers should not be …

Biz dev role at independent's 1UP publishing division for former MumboJumbo man

It’s a big ask, but it’s possible that Sony’s PS3 could just catch Xbox 360 in terms of total global sales by the end of the 2010 – that’s according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, as reported by Industry Gamers. It claims that as of Q1 2010, the …

New job post the latest hint that Schofieldâ??s crew is picking up Infinity Wardâ??s job

Though the UK High Street continues to struggle against what to date is proving an even more challenging sales year than 2009, Sony has pointed out that the PS3 is proving the star performer by posting strong year-on-year increases. To date in calendar 2010 sales of PS3 hardware are up …

Alongside the digital only episodic Sonic the Hedgehog 4 that’s due to hit digital platform later this year, Sega has lifted the lid on a brand new home console outing for the famed gaming mascot. Sonic Colours sees our hero visit an alien theme park plagued by series’ villain Dr …

MCV has been lead to believe that reports citing a $149 RRP (103) for Microsoft’s Project Natal are accurate. The number was reported on Edge Online this afternoon, which credtited the information to a ‘trusted source’. Edge also claims that natal will be bundled with the Xbox 360 Arcade for …