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High-security hospital Broadmoor – which is home to some of the UK’s most notorious killers – has issued 22 Nintendo Wiis to inmates in an effort to help keep them fit whilst they undergo treatment. A source at Broadmoor claims that Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been spied playing the …

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Gaming is once again at the centre of a high-profile celebrity split story with news that High School Musical star Zac Efron’s gaming addiction has landed him in the dog house. ContractMusic reports that girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens claims that video games have ‘taken over’ the star’s life. Vanessa has hardly …

The teams behind the latest Lucas releases on how they handle the fiercely guarded IP

Publisher Activision will, as previously pledged, donate 250k to charity War Child following the success of its Game for Good event in conjunction with Game and Microsoft early last month. In total 1,019,088 gamers logged into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer mode on Xbox Live between Saturday December …

Ubisoft Pune finishes first full title, with the firm at concept stage for next

Publisher EA is to power down a host of servers used to run the multiplayer component of a number of last-gen and some early next-gen titles, it has revealed. Titles in line to see their strings cut include Facebreaker, Fight Night Round 3, NASCAR 09, Burnout Revenge, FIFA 07, Tiger …

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Capcom has said in an investor Q&A that it intends to change the way it handles third party development partnerships with the intention of delegating new IP projects to its Japanese studios. Capcom believes that its partnership with fallen Swedish studio Grin has demonstrated the difficulty” of outsourcing projects to …