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GDC 09: Bounce Boing Voyage to be first motion controlled title

GDC 09: New service brings 'cloud' computing to the games space

GDC 09: Developer debuts alternate reality game Xi

GDC 09: PC Gaming Alliance releases positive industry report

GDC 09:Latest features for PC games include copy protection, in-game marketplace and roaming

GDC 09: Icelandic developer looking to hire in the wake of a duo of award wins

Whilst the fragmentation of the PC market across traditional retail and online has made the entire segment hard to track, and even created the (debatable) belief that the sector is suffering severe decline, a new report from the PCGA claims that the PC remains the world’s number one games machine. …

With Zeebo proposing that the future of gaming will bring about the end of disc-based media, an arguably even more exciting prospect dubbed OnLive threatens to end the gaming hardware race altogether. The new on-demand service claims to do for gaming what the ‘cloud’ concept has done to computing – …

Ahead of the release of the DSi in Europe and America early next month, Nintendo’s rejigged dual screen handheld has now passed the 2m unit sales barrier in its homeland of Japan. The news comes from Japanese games weekly Famitsu, courtesy of VG247. DSi hit the market in the Far …

Xbox 360 came under the BBC spotlight last night as consumer awareness show Watchdog investigated complaints of a disc-scratching problem on Microsoft’s console. The program reported that it has received ‘many’ complaints of discs being scratched – which they claim happened without users moving or knocking against their console. The …