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Having debuted in a respectable third place in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 yesterday, Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros Wii has been given top marks by weekly Japanese games mag Famitsu. Mario’s latest becomes only the 13th game to ever receive the highly-coveted accolade, though it is the …

Ontario is dedicated to developing the games industry, says Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat

Develop catches up with Ubisoft's Ontario studio's CEO Yannis Mallat

Blizzard executive video president of game design Rob Pardo has been explaining why Diablo III’s arrival is still a ways off, and grappling with the perennial problem of announcing big games too early. Like other Blizzard properties Starcraft and World of WarCraft, Diablo has a large base of loyal fans, …

Datel has filed a lawsut against Microsoft, following the latter’s Dashboard update which rendered third-party memory cards useless. The antitrust lawsuit was filed in San Francisco federal court on Monday, complaining that Microsoft had deliberately altered its technology to force Datel Max Memory cards out of the market. "For many …

On Monday, U.S. president Barack Obama unveiled an education campaign designed to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in children’s education. A raft of companies and charity foundations announced their support including Time Warner, Discovery, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Sony Computer Entertainment America. The games firm …

But the Wiiâ??s hardware is holding those possibilities back, says MMO veteran Jeff Strain

MMO veteran Jeff Strain discusses how his new studio will transform the genre

Jeff Strain opens new studio to create a zombie MMO for consoles only

Human rights groups are calling upon developers and publisher to address the way war crimes are portrayed in video games. Swiss organisations Trial and Projeventute carried out a study to see if conflicts portrayed in games – and the players’ actions in these situations – broke humanitarian laws that define …