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So CEO Yoichi Wada’s comments to us last week about the potential death of the home console should not to be dismissed as outlandish. He says the trade’s bread and butter sales and distribution forces will be hit hard by the oncoming tidal wave of browser games and online distribution. …

Approximately one million Last.FM profiles have been created through the new Xbox Live social media update. The number of gamers using the customisable online music service is considerably higher than the 500,000 originally announced by Microsoft last week, according to Game Informer. These users have streamed a combined 120 million …

It’s as you were at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week with Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 spending its third week at the top of the listings despite a 32 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. You can read the full Top …

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UK-based scribe picks up gong for work on Prince of Persia

But the studio CEO doesnâ??t want â??to get into the pitfall of blurring the lines between film and games"

With dedicated BBC iPlayer apps already available on both the PS3 and Wii, it has been claimed that Microsoft has held talks with the BBC to bring an Xbox 360 version of the TV tool to its console. However, it seems that the fact that Xbox Live is paid-for service …

A new iPhone application has launched that allows users to access their Xbox Live account through their Apple device. 360 Live is an unofficial app that enables Xbox gamers to manage their gamertags and friend requests, send and receive messages, check the games history and achievements of their own account …

Former Codemasters execs open new Midlands studio, Develop can reveal

Rare studio head Mark Betteridge has strongly indicated that a new Killer Instinct game could be developed for Natal. Street Fighter IV looked great and they’ve done a great job, and I’m a big fan of those products, but with KI we want to do something different rather than go …