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In conjunction with the release of Winning Eleven 2010 (the Japanese name for the Pro Evolution Soccer series) for the PSP next week, Sony has pictured a branded hardware bundle that will launch alongside the game. The machine, which is the UMD-ready PSP-3000 variant of the console as opposed to …

Rumour: The man at the centre of the Silent Hill series has departed

The release of upcoming sci-fi action adventure Brink has been delayed until autumn 2010. The slip was confirmed at the end of a new gameplay video released on G4. The footage ends with the tagline Revolution Comes: Fall 2010”. Brink was announced for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC at this …

Ubisoft is currently working on up to 15 motion-controlled projects across Microsoft and Sony’s forthcoming hardware, with the majority slated for the highly anticipated Project Natal. During the publisher’s fiscal first half results call to investors, CEO Yves Guillemot revealed the company’s support for Natal is almost double of that …

Unity iPhone update puts end to security flaw

Social networking group hires the outspoken innovator

Not wanting to be outdone by Sony, Microsoft has claimed that Xbox 360 enjoyed its best US sales week of 2009 over Thanksgiving – though it has stopped short of giving us exact numbers. Director of product management Aaron Greenberg said on Twitter: Great Black Friday results just in, biggest …

While Nintendo had to contend with year-on-year decreases in Wii sales for the crucial Thanksgiving week at North American retail, Sony claims that the PS3 enjoyed its strongest ever sales performance in the period. In total, the recently resigned and slimmed down machine shifted 400k units in the week ending …

US independent outfit explains how its middleware offering stands out...

Planning a strong push into the games sector, social network hi5 has hired outspoken industry veteran Alex St. John as president and chief technology officer. Until late last year, St. John was CEO of online gaming destination WildTangent. Previously, he was a Microsoft bigwig, whose credits include co-creating DirectX. His …