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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 …

And now USA, UK and Japan will get Xbox 360 and Windows dev conferences in spring

US-based role will â??drive forward Gears of War and Shadow Complexâ?? franchises

Company issues score of new Natal-related job vacancies

A purported former developer at defunct studio Pandemic has broken his silence on the state of the studio before EA gave it the axe. The alleged developer – writing anonymously on a gaming forum – slammed Pandemic’s management and said that EA probably made the right decision to close the …