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We already have a fair idea what to expect at next month’s E3 – plenty of into about Move, Natal and the 3DS (and Vitality Sensor) for instance – but Sony could perhaps be saving the biggest surprise of all. MCV has been informed of a significant increase in marketing …

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The first Move developers speak to Develop about the potential of the new tech.


Rumours circulate as Zynga readies pastures new

EA has posted Q4 net revenues of $979 million, up $119 million from 2009’s Q4 tally of $860 million. Profits came in at $30 million, compared with a net loss of $42 million for the prior year. The company said its best performers were Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mass Effect …

New details have emerged for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the next instalment in the multi-million unit selling series. The game was uncovered last week when pre-order materials emerged showing Ezio, the star of Assassin’s Creed II, with a variety of other characters and promising a release by the end of …

Valve has confirmed that tomorrow will finally see the long-awaited arrival of Steam on the Mac platform. Amongst the first releases will be popular gravity-bending action puzzle outing Portal. It’s the first example of a title built using Valve’s Source engine running on the OSX operating system. Other games set …

Ubisoft guns for rapid turnaround by pouring staff into new project

The gaming accessories market expects a surge in peripheral sales when Project Natal and PlayStation Move hit store shelves. MCV quizzed 15 manufacturers – all of which are preparing their own products to accompany the motion tech. Mad Catz Europe’s general manager Brian Anderson said: We’re enormously excited about the …