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The final edition of Microsoft’s Project Natal control prototype features technology based on an all-encompassing system-on-a-chip. And Microsoft says that the newly-revealed component will help the company deliver revolutionary controller-free entertainment”. Natal’s tech is now thought to be a modified version of the PS1080 chip – built by Israeli company …

UK players of massively multiplayer online games spent 195m on them last year, a report has found. The Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report also revealed that there are over four million MMO players in Britain, and that UK gamers spent more than any other European country on the genre last …

Natal design to be based on tech by Israeli company PrimeSense

Though to some the omissions of a built-in web browser on Xbox 360 continues to baffle, Microsoft has once again definitively stated that it will not be introducing the feature in any future updates for the console. Instead, it intends to focus on optimising key web experiences through the possible …

GameStop has revealed that 23 per cent of it’s new games revenues in the year ending January 31st 2010 came from the sale of Nintendo products. However, this number is down from the 25 per cent Nintendo commanded in the same period the year before. Gamespot reports that Sony accounted …

Activision has confirmed that the reshuffle at its US office will result in alterations to the structure of its UK operations, though the exact details remain unclear for now. We are realigning our structure to better reflect our slate and the market opportunities in Europe as well as directing our …

David Reeves pledges DLC future for Capcom Europe

Publishing kingpin restructures into four key divisions

Having been the first to crack some of PS3’s key security features earlier this year, famous iPhone hacker George Hotz has vowed to discover a method to circumvent Sony’s upcoming PS3 update that will remove the ability to install an alternative operating system. Hotz claims that the move is not …

Zynga VP to open industry conference on May 6