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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

The demise of Pinnacle Software hasn’t slowed some of its former senior management – two of its staff have already formed a new publishing outfit. P2 Games is formed by Peter Sleeman and Gerry Whiteside and will focus on DS, Wii, PC and digital download games. Previously the two had …

Microsoft relied on wow factor to open the show. Nothing wrong with that; celebrity appearances, the long-expected reveal of a new peripheral and fanboy-pleaser Kojima are not to be sniffed at. However, already-established Rock Band aside, each of them (especially Natal, hidden behind closed doors) lacked any tangible product for …

Consumers can expect to pay full-whack for Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3: ODST upon its release in September following Microsoft’s decision to back-track on its initial statement claiming that the game would be a budget standalone expansion release. At the time of those statements, the overall scope of Halo 3: ODST …

GameStop has gained exclusive rights to the Halo 3: ODST Collector’s Pack. The American retail giant will be the only company to offer the bundle in the US, although Joystiq reports the pack will be made available in other regions at participating retailers. The Collector’s Pack includes a copy of …

The new 3D â??performance-captureâ?? animation studio to share services with TV specialist Hullabaloo