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Adding to the Beatles’s loss in the music charts at the hands of the record-breaking Dame Vera Lynn, EA’s licensed games outing The Beatles: Rock Band also missed out on the video games charts crown with Activision’s Guitar Hero 5 emerging victorious to claim the top spot. Guitar Hero 5 …

Physical library built on the renowned Cell microprocessor

505 Games has strengthened its growing team with the impressive appointment of former Activision and Eidos stalwart Bob Burridge as UK sales director. The new hire comes shortly after former UK sales head Ralph Pitt-Stanley was promoted to the position of commercial director last month. Like many of 505’s key …

SCE UK has praised retail for driving consumer interest during the launch of its re-designed PS3. The console arrived last week and caused PlayStation 3 hard sales to rocket 1,000 per cent, which in turn had a knock-on effect on software. Now the platform holder is urging retail to push …

MGSâ?? Phil Spencer says the company will look for new ways to modernise the 360

The latest from Autodesk Media and Entertainment

UK-based Worldweaver to provide better access to its 3D engine

AI tools and character animation firms aim to simplify video game character creation

Vision Engine v7.6 to support DX11 processors from the likes of AMD

Prince of Persia creator will discuss successes in games and movies