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Microsoft is promising the launch of Project Natal will be on a similar scale to that of the Xbox 360. In an interview with Kotaku, the company’s head of long-term Xbox 360 strategy Shane Kim hinted that the debut of the motion-sensitive peripheral will be comparable to the launch of …

Xbox Live Indie Games unveiled as XNA 3.1 adds avatar support, video playback and more

Mirroring the overall decline seen in the US video games market in May, hardware sales for the period suffered a sharp fall – year-on-year sales of consoles dropped 30 per cent, hitting $302,500. Software was on the decline, too, albeit by a lesser extent. Compared to May 2008 total software …

May proved to be another tough month for US games retailer with market research body NPD stating that the market suffered a 23 per cent year-on-year drop in revenue in the period. Sales reached $863.3m – significantly down on the $1.12 generated in May 2008 and the first time the …

Over 20 MPs and Lords on hand to provide a forum for discussion on how the industry can be aided

The second part of our interview with OnLive's Mike McGarvey

Bizarre explains why Blur will take a different approach to Criterion's ongoing downloadable updates

Part two of our interview with Bizarre's Peter McCabe and Ben Ward

Analyst group says developers and players are naturally divided on the value of narrative and cut-scenes

Labour will announce the new industry standard age classification system on Tuesday next week (June 16th) as part of its Digital Britain report, MCV can reveal. The news comes 12 months after the publication of the Government’s Byron Review, which recommended that the BBFC’s powers be increased in a hybrid …