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Ubisoft’s Red Steel 3 – which has still not been officially confirmed – is said to be building a game using Nintendo’s Wii Vitality Sensor. The publisher will apparently use Nintendo’s peculiar fingertip pulse oximeter for, according to reports of an interview with Red Steel art director Jason Vandenberghe. The …

Simon Nelson discusses the crossover with games and TV

The CEO of development studio Obsidian has claimed that his studios’ cancelled Aliens RPG was, to all intents and purposes, complete when Sega decided to pull the plug. If you had come in and played any of the last builds we were working on, you would have said it was …

Best Buy says its games offering can compete with anything HMV and GAME has to offer. The chain’s first UK shop is based in Thurrock, Essex and has been opened early for the Bank Holiday weekend. Best Buy Thurrock boasts a huge area dedicated to games – complete with new …

International Cricket 2010 takes to the field on Friday, June 18th, MCV can reveal. The game’s release date coincides with the start of the NatWest 2010 one-day international series, which begins with five matches between England and Australia. International Cricket is the spiritual successor to last year’s hit sports title, …

US retail giant Best Buy has vowed to take on HMV and GAME with the opening of its first UK store tomorrow. The chain’s first UK shop is based in Thurrock, Essex and has been opened early for the Bank Holiday weekend. Best Buy Thurrock boasts a huge area dedicated …

The first official details of this year’s still mysterious Call of Duty outing will be revealed tomorrow on GTTV in the form of a teaser trailer. The preview spot for the show stated: Put all the rumours to rest – don’t miss the global announcement of the next Call of …

HMV’s group sales are up 1.8 per cent per cent for its financial year ending April 24th, the firm revealed in a pre-close statement. Sales for its HMV stores have risen 4.3 per cent, while Waterstone’s sales are down six per cent. The Group expects its year-end debt to be …

George Andreas to conduct headline lecture in design track at July event

Unconfirmed title Red Steel 3 will supposedly use Nintendoâ??s upcoming peripheral