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Chinese online game operators have been told to clean up content to ensure games hit approved cultural and political notes

Having taken a stab at both the web browsing and mobile phone markets, internet colossus Google has lifted the lid on its next big computing adventure – the Chrome operating system. Whilst the likes of Apple’s OS X and the open-source Linux engine enjoy a slim but stable share of …

Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment has secured the rights to develop a movie based on Capcom’s Dark Void. Dark Void launches on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on January 22nd next year, and the movie will be developed as a sci-fi action franchise. Pitt is also set to …

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Microsoft has today confirmed it will reveal more details about its Project Natal 360 peripheral to developers at its Gamefest conferences this February. The news follows our reports the firm is currently touring studios to spur Natal support and hiring developers to make new first-party games for the new peripheral. …

Where better to look for the modern day James Bond than in the murky waters of Xbox Live, right? That’s clearly what the UK government believes with news that super-secret intel organisation GCHQ is to run recruitment advertising on Xbox Live. Tomorrow will see the start of a six-week campaign …

Abingdon Law, with offices in and around Texas, has posted the outlines of its "investigation" while seeking out barred Xbox Live players hoping for recompense. The firm says Microsoft deliberately timed its recent banning order against owners of modified machines, soon after the sale of some of the year’s biggest …

Slower sales of hardware were blamed on the dip, but overall Gamestop enjoyed a decent quarter. Sales rose 8.2% to $1.83 billion, while profits rose from $46.7 million to $52.2 million. As the economy suffered, used game sales were up 20 percent, but new game sales also saw a jump …

Gamesfest conferences to feature special focus on new Microsoft peripheral

China’s Ministry of Culture has issued a circular demanding that game companies refrain from content that is "not up to standard" or offering "lowbrow cultural content that is having a negative effect on the healthy development of the industry". There are more than 50 million gamers in China, a market …