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American sports broadcaster ESPN is reporting that EA is preparing to announce its capture of cherished retro games franchise NBA Jam. Midway’s NBA Jam was both an arcade and 16bit hit in the early ‘90s, shunning the simulation approach of rival titles in favour of an arcadey two-on-two approach. Special …

Phonetic Arts reveals its latest weapon in the fight against pre-recorded audio

Jamie MacDonald, Ubisoft Reflection's Stewart and Bizarre's Thompson join skills development body

The PC version of BioWare’s recently released RPG epic Dragon Age: Origins has won AbleGamers’ 2009 Mainstream Accessibility Award thanks to its approach to widely-accessible gaming. US-based AbleGamers is a charity site aimed at disabled gamers. It aims to provide information for those with disabilities about what games are and …

Famed Russian author wants the Metro franchise to be as big as Star Wars

Rivals will struggle to catch up, claims Steve Jobs

Worldwide iPhone and iPod touch users have download over 3 billion Apps in the 18 months since the App Store opened to the public. "Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months – this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "The revolutionary App …

With piracy rife in the Wii, Xbox 360, DS and PSP markets, the PS3 has to date proved the only current-gen machine to successfully fend off the hackers – but it seems that things could be about to change. According to reports on Maxconsole, a lengthy and convoluted workaround has …

New tech from Sony and Panasonic sees standard disc capacity raised from 25GB to 33.4GB

Nintendo has ushered in the new decade by clinching two hardware sales records – the best ever selling machine in Europe and the fastest console to 20m sales. The first record is claimed by the DS, which via its various guises (the DS, DS Lite and DSi) has now sold …