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A new service called Digital Reader is set to launch on PSP this year. The service will launch with Digital Comics, which will give consumers the chance to download hundreds of classic and new comics from the PlayStation Store. Titles including Marvel’s Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four comics will be …

Publisher Codemasters will release F1 2009 on Wii with a special limited edition race wheel. The new accessory is styled after an actual F1 racing wheel, and the Wii Remote slots into the shell. F1 2009 is scheduled for release this Christmas on PSP and Wii, and is based on …

GAMESCOMâ??09: The German company offers iPhone devs better game exposure

Gameloft has agreed a licensing deal with developer Interplay that will see the arrival of a new Earthworm Jim title – bringing an end to a decade of absence for the franchise. Details of the new Jim project are scarce, yet it is known that the new game is being …

Whilst Peter Molyneux’s impressive Fable III presentation was a pleasant surprise for most at Gamescom, the biggest shock of all was the lowering of the curtains with not so much as a whisper of price cuts or new Xbox 360 SKUs. Many – including MCV – were expecting Microsoft to …

Microsoft’s Peter Molyneux has just taken to the stage at Microsoft’s supposedly low-key presentation at Gamescom in Cologne to announce the third chapter in its accessible RPG series Fable. The third child is always the problem child,” Molyneux has told the audience. The third game of any series tends to …

Sega has announced Napoleon: Total War for February 2010. The PC real time strategy game is the sequel to this year’s Empire: Total War, which topped the ChartTrack Top 40 back in February, and achieved critical acclaim. The game is once again being developed by The Creative Assembley. In Napoleon: …

Gamescomâ??09: Microsoft secures XBLA timed-exclusivity deal

Gamescomâ??09: While Fable 2 is set to return via five episodic titles

Gamescom 09:The multiplatform LightSpeed engine is now tailored for â??rapidâ?? online game development