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This is the earliest you’ve revealed FIFA. Why do this at an early stage? There were a couple of things we wanted to tell people about. One of them is the fact we are doing such a great job refining the game, so there’s been lots and lots of polish, …

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Rockstar and Media Molecule are leading the nominations at the 2009 Develop Industry Excellence Awards. Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North are together nominated for six awards for their work on GTA: Chinatown Wars and GTAIV: The Lost and Damned respectively. And, after a stunning debut year with the release of …

Satoru Iwata, the CEO of platform holder Nintendo, has dampened rumours of a second high-definition version of its Wii console by questioning what added value it would add to its customer base. Though Nintendo itself has never made any allusions to a possible HD makeover for its console, analysts have …

EA Games President Frank Gibeau: â??The bloom is really off the rose for licensed gamesâ??

An Epic tale of the Dark Knight

One thing universally absent from this year’s E3 was any kind of hardware price cutting from any of the major platform holders – and that’s something that Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick is not happy about. I was disappointed not to see any sort of aggressive price cutting,” he told …

Activision insists it hadnâ??t relinquished the rights to Brutal Legend, a game soon to be published by EA

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Rockstar and Media Molecule lead nominations in most diverse contest yet