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Gamescomâ??09: The Genji and Heavenly Sword studios are set to provide Namco Bandai with three new games

Forget the idea that all gamers are overweight and unfit – the fastest man in the world likes nothing more than staying indoors and playing video games, it has been revealed. Speaking to BBC Radio5 Live ahead of the 200m final at the World Athletics Championship in Berlin tomorrow, Bolt …

Sony’s new PS3 will help the console close the sales gap currently enjoyed by Microsoft’s Xbox 360, according to EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich The new PS3 pricing scheme finally makes the Sony console a much more competitive product, relative to its closest rival, the Xbox 360,” he stated. However, Divnich …

Californian development studio Naughty Dog hopes Sony will greenlight a new Jak and Daxter project. When asked by Eurogamer if the studio is working on a PS3 edition of the longstanding series, community manager Arne Meyer replied, We definitely hear a lot from our Jak fans and we’d love to …

Gamescomâ??09: Netherlands-based Xsens providing animation tech for new MMO Poisonville

Layoffs have been administered to some of the development force responsible for Activision’s new Wolfenstein game. Though the game’s principal developer – the US-based Raven Software – remains unscathed from the new round of layoffs, staff at UK-based outfit Endrant Studios have been handed their notice. Speaking to Develop, a …

Konami has confirmed its complete release schedule for its hotly anticipated Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, with the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions arriving first on October 22nd. These will be followed by the PS2 and PSP incarnations on November 5th and finally the Wii outing on November 19th. PES …

Microsoft will drop the price of the Xbox 360 Elite within seven days – that’s the prediction of EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich, backing up information supplied to MCV UK retail. We expect Microsoft to make an official announcement, in the next week, regarding the elimination of the Xbox 360 Pro …

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 …