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Sony yesterday launched its brand new VidZone service for PS3 users in the UK – and whilst the release has been met with little fanfare, those who have downloaded and tried it are already chalking VidZone up as a potential system seller. To read the full story, click here to …

SCEA CEO blasts PSPgo info leaks months before the handheld was oficially announced

Meanwhile Bethesda, Crytek and Babel sign to sponsor July 15th event in Brighton

Southeast Asia is â??the world's fastest growing online games marketâ?, says LMI Asia

Electronic Arts has confirmed that a ‘small team’ at Swedish outfit DICE is working on a sequel to Mirror’s Edge. EA’s euro VP Patrick Soderlund told news site VideoGamer at E3 that we have a small team on it and I’m excited about what we do.” He didn’t offer any …

Grasshopper Manufacture Studio Head says direct interaction with player is 'essential'

As soon as the US release date of November 17th was announced at E3 earlier this month a November 20th arrival in the UK and Europe was as good as certain – and now Ubisoft has confirmed the presumption. The first game, released back in 2007, was a commercial hit …

New trade and consumer show Gamescom has appointed B2B leaders MCV and CasualGaming.biz as media partners. The event takes place in Cologne, starting with a trade-only day on Wednesday August 19th. An extra high circulation edition of MCV will be distributed in the Business Centre throughout the entire show, which …

Microsoft insists that its new Xbox 360 Games on Demand service won’t dampen retail sales. But at E3, where the new service was unveiled, the firm admitted it hadn’t yet decided how long – if at all – a wait there will be between a digital release and its boxed …

EA confirms Swedish dev DICE is working on the sequel, implies a possible departure from the original