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Namco Bandai has announced that Splatterhouse will arrive on Xbox 360 and PS3 in Europe in 2010. The game is a re-boot of the classic 1988 beat ’em up Arvade game, which was originally being worked on by BottleRocket Entertainment before being taken in-house. Today’s console technology is literally decades …

The wait has been a long one and whilst Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 should be with us by the spring, boss Kazunori Yamauchi has claimed that his studio could in theory release the game at any moment should it choose to. The scale of this title is just dizzying, …

Warner Bros has revealed LEGO Rock Band will be released in the UK on November 27th. The joint venture between LEGO Star Wars developers Traveller’s Tales and Rock Band studio Harmonix has been developed for Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and DS. The game was rumoured for a long time, before …

Sources claim Nvidiaâ??s mobile-centric system-on-a-chip, Tegra, will power the next Nintendo handheld

Nintendo's European boss Laurent Fischer on attracting more developers to WiiWare and DSiWare

Company will be rewarding promising startups with copies of its Unity Pro platform

It seems that Master Chief’s absence from Microsoft’s latest instalment in the Halo universe has not knocked Halo 3: ODST too badly, with news that the game has already sold 2.5m units worldwide since its release on September 22nd. That amounts to $125m in revenues, according to USA Today. It …

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Leading High Street games retailer GAME has secured the exclusive rights to sell EA’s upcoming Xbox 360, PS3 and PC RPG in the UK. Included are three pieces of in-game content – Bergens Honour, Grimoire of the Frozen Wastes and Final Reason. Also included is the in-game Blood Dragon Armour …

The deadline to send through suggestions for this year’s 30 Under 30 is very close. It’s just a week away, on Tuesday 20th, in fact. Every year, MCV presents a list of the UK games market’s rising stars, and the 2009 edition of 30 Under 30 is no different. This …