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Bethesda has surprised one and all this afternoon with the shock announcement of a brand new Fallout title for PC and next-consoles next year. Dubbed Fallout: New Vegas, the game is not a sequel to last year’s massively popular Fallout 3, and will instead be a standalone title ‘set in …

Fallout: New Vegas set for release on Xbox 360, Ps3 and PC in 2010

Free-to-play shooter Cross Fire to feature in-game advertising

Nintendo’s Wii Fit is enjoying its third straight week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 this week, brining the total amount of number ones enjoyed by the title to 12 – with eight coming in 2009. EA’s The Godfather II manages to hold on to …

Mobile analytics firm offering advice on adding popular search terms in a gameâ??s description

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Serious game developer will now expand its work on medical training software

Sales monitor GfK-ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it hopes to set up a chart of UK digital downloads by the end of this year. The company said it was in ‘active discussions’ with a number of leading providers of downloadable digital content with a view to inking a deal …

OpenGL game engine to support C++ networking technology

The price of acclaimed PS3 title LittleBigPlanet has tumbled to around 10, six months after it was released. The Media Molecule-developed title has an SRP of 44.99, but can be found at online retailers – including DVD.co.uk – for 10.89, while Play and Amazon have the title on sale for …