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Bethesda Softworks Europe has signed up a new futuristic racer made for the Wii by Archer Maclean’s studio Awesome Play. Due out in autumn 2009 the game, called Wheelspin, is described as a ‘a high-energy racing, high-impact game spread across a wide range of inter-planetary tracks’. The game features solo, …

Publisher Capcom has announced that Japanese mega hit Monster Hunter Tri will be released in the UK and Europe early next year. Tri marks the series’ first foray onto Wii and Capcom hopes that the combination of one of its key IPs and the hugely popular Wii will result in …

The iPhone group has allegedly revealed its new device to a selection of analysts, several of which have broken their silence

Famed UK developer's new Wii racer Wheelspin brought to market by Fallout publisher

Black Rock Studio's David Jefferies looks at the issue of lag in the wireless generation

The inaugural Gamescom trade fair takes place in just over two weeks. For those planning to go – and those who still need convincing – we’ve put together a special preview to the event and Cologne city guide. This six-page supplement details everything you need to know about what is …

Hot on the heels of Nintendo releasing a brand new piracy-fighting patch for its DSi console, Nintendo’s anti-piracy efforts have been further bolstered by the successful prosecution of a high-profile DS pirate in Japan. Kotaku reports that 38 year old Yoshiaki Asagiri has been handed a two and a half …

Industry's leading independent journalist becomes online editor of Mobile Entertainment

Gearbox Software has revealed that it may sell to other studios the right to develop a game based on the 1995 Michael Mann film Heat. The ten year-old Texan developer, currently at the closing stages of the Borderlands project, said it didn’t have the time resources to work on a …

Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that a new DS entry in the Call of Duty series will arrive alongside the console release of Modern Warfare 2 this November. Developed by n-Space, the game will include a range of weapons and vehicles, with players taking control of AC-130 gunships and will …