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Industry-led game design course offers students a 6-month Maya trial

'One day turn-around' tool for making PSN comics, strategy guides, eMagazines and more detailed in San Francisco

Rally driving game DiRT 3 has been announced by Codemasters and likely hit UK stores in 2011. In an interview with Edge, Codemasters VP Gavin Cheshire said: It’s all about letting the teams just innovate. There’s some great stuff coming from Birmingham that’s going into DiRT 3, and obviously you’ve …

Members of the 2K Games forum are up in arms this afternoon following accusations that recently released DLC for popular FPS BioShock 2 is in fact already sitting on the game disc. The claims come after users spotted that the total size of the download for the PC version is …

GDC videos show off new Havok abilities

It almost seems like lightning has struck twice for Future. The firm has spent the last few weeks telling publishers that its impressive new First Play on-console PS3 show is one of its best launches ever. Now the swoop for the full licence to its distinguished (polite word for ‘old’, …

Platform holder reaffirms commitment to core games IP development but admits to being â??head over heels in loveâ? with new tech

Heart rate detection and pupil dilation may be vital info in future games

New motion controller will use minimal system space

The creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Peter Molyneux has stated that the publisher’s forthcoming Xbox 360 RPG Fable III needs to sell 5m copies to meet internal expectations. That figure isn’t necessarily a financial target, IGN reports, but instead relates to goals relating to gameplay changes made to the …