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Click here to head over to the updated RETAIL BIZ previews section for the lowdown on some of the key releases approaching retail over the next month. This week, we swap our rolling pin for a garden hose in 505 Games’ Gardening Mama, the sequel to the casual gaming phenomenon …

Whilst we can be fairly certain a new iPhone is on the way this June or July, most likely packing a 3.2 megapixel camera, gyroscope and larger internal memory, it’s anyone’s guess what else Apple has planned – but new documents suggest motion tech could be at the heart of …

Emergent-sponsored Develop 100 will toast the best developers in May

Sports Interactive MD â?? and victim of piracy â?? Miles Jacobson assesses the contentious court ruling

Amidst all the talk of NPD’s March year-on-year hardware sales comparisons, chart-topping software battles and third party revenue numbers, Sony and Microsoft both chose to play the PR game on another front – Metacritic review aggregations. In its post-March response, Sony stated that: Approximately one in every three PS3 titles …

Legendary US sports broadcaster John Madden has announced that he is to retire from TV commentating, but publisher EA has insisted that it doesn’t mean the end of their long-running relationship between Madden and its NFL games franchise. As you can imagine, we’ve had dozens of questions today about what …

Dubbed by many as the first person shooter that will revolutionize the genre on Wii, the developer of The Conduit has stated that the game will be released in North America on June 23rd. Joystiq obtained the news from High Voltage Software’s Eric Nofsinger. A European date for the game …

Western-looking Japanese publisher Square Enix has lifted the lid on a brand new WWII strategy title called Order of War, which will be released on PC in Europe this autumn. The game, which promises to feature massive scale battles brought to life with a cinematic intensity never seen before in …

As over a third of surveyed developers claim that game-skills have aided their careers

Just days after it emerged that Scratch: Ultimate DJ developer Genius Productions had filed a lawsuit against Activision regarding its upcoming DJ Hero, a court has dismissed the allegations. The LA Superior Court found that there was no evidence of wrongdoing” relating to Activision’s purchase of former Scratch: Ultimate DJ …