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GAMESCOMâ??09: Next in Segaâ??s PC RTS franchise to arrive in February

Bobby Kotick, the boss of the world’s largest games publisher Activision Blizzard, has stated that the hunger for new ideas and IP in gaming is true of just a tiny fraction of gaming’s overall audience. A small segment of very vocal gamers say everything has to be new and different …

Gamescomâ??09: Uncharted 2 developer keen to take the series to PS3

MTV Games has told MCV that a ‘Beatles Microphone Bundle’ could be released at European retail this Q4. As reported yesterday, MCV believes that the pack will carry SingStar branding. The publisher did not confirm if this was the case, but reiterated its support for third-party music video game peripherals …

Sony expects its recently revealed PS3 redesign to reinvigorate the console’s fortunes in the market, hopefully reversing the year-on-year sales declines seen in both Europe and North America. The new PS3 will be a game-changing moment,” SCEA’s director of hardware marketing John Koller told Kotaku. We think it’s the sign …

Gamescomâ??09Metal Gear solid: Peace Walker centred on online four-player co-op, trailer suggests

The European office of Square Enix makes its first public showing since buying Eidos at Gamescom this week – labelling the event ‘very important’ to its new strategy. The firm will show off titles including Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV (pictured), Nier and Front Mission Evolved in Cologne, as …

Sony has confirmed that PS3’s on-off backwards compatibility support for back catalogue PS2 titles has been abandoned for good with news that the new PS3 will not support the feature. Backwards compatibility is off the table,” SCEA’s hardware marketing director John Koller told Kotaku. Koller also confirmed that the new …

Having snapped up Eidos this year, Square Enix is planning a bumper extravaganza for Cologne’s trade show. Tim Ingham interviews the publisher’s product boss Larry Sparks… Which games are you expecting the biggest reaction to at Gamescom? We expect all of our titles to receive favourable reactions. As always there …

Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, Sony America president Jack Tretton has hailed the success of Sony’s PS3 for the speed at which the company has moved to launch a redesign. For the original Playstation and the PlayStation 2 we announced revisions of the hardware in the third and fourth …