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3D video games won’t be mass market for at least another five years, Data Design Interactive has told MCV. The casual games specialist is to launch one of the first 3D video games, Battle Rage: The Robot Wars – which comes with 3D glasses – ahead of Ubisoft’s highly anticipated …

Sony had planned to release a ‘network centric’ model of the PSP ever since the beginning, according to an interview on website GameBusiness.jp. In an interview with the head of SCE’s product planning division, Naoya Matsui, it has been revealed that the company was simply waiting for the digital pipeline …

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Wii’s hardcore gaming credentials have taken another knock with the news that one of its leading mature brands is unlikely to appear again on the system. No More Heroes, a title from Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture, is one of the leading hardcore titles on the system and a sequel is …

Some good news for Blu-ray at last. New numbers from the British Video Association show that 3.1m of the hi-def discs have been sold so far in 2009 – that’s a 231 per cent increase on the same period last year. The knock-on has of course been a dip in …

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Platform holder was simply waiting for digital market to mature, says head of product planning

Upcoming developer conference to add focus to the bourgeoning mobile platform

Click here to access the RETAIL BIZ Previews section, where MCV offers a guide to the best games heading to retail this month. This week, we take a look at Bethesda’s Fallout 3 Game Add-On Pack: Operation Anchorage and The Pitt. This expansion pack brings the first two DLC episodes …