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There’s more than enough evidence to suggest that Apple can rightly lay claim to be the fourth platform holder of the modern video games market – but Nintendo has dismissed the idea that Apple’s gain is its loss. There’s been no data to suggest an encroachment on our business,” Nintendo’s …

Futureworks in partnership with Smashmouth Games

F1 2010 will speed onto retail shelves in September, Codemasters has announced. The publisher released its first F1 games last year for Wii and PSP, which became a top five seller on DS during the Christmas period. F1 2010 will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and include …

Though the differences between Nintendo’s Miis and both Xbox Avatars and PS3 Home are numerous, perhaps the most conspicuous separator is the fact that while Sony and Microsoft have looked to monetise their services, Nintendo has not. And it doesn’t look as if Nintendo has plans to change that any …

Amidst the huge aura of uncertainty that currently surrounds the Modern Warfare arm of the Call of Duty franchise, Infinity Ward has nailed down a March 30th release date for the first paid DLC for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360. The news comes from the cryptically …

Farmville studio â??probaly not the most fun to work forâ?? says Malenfant

Microsoft hopes to integrate online services within PC, 360 and mobiles

Just hours after revealing that a motion controlled version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 will be heading to PS3 but not Xbox 360, EA has now announced that EA Sports Active 2 will also be snubbing the motion control bandwagon on Xbox 360. The game will come bundled with …

MTV Games will publish, EA to distribute

An estimated 2,000 RPG fans flocked on HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store last night to mark the release of one of this generation’s most anticipated titles – Final Fantasy XIII. Such was the enthusiasm for the event that at one stage staffers were forced to close the store to other …