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GDC 09: HumanIK 4 and Kynapse 6 middleware solutions announced

The head of PlayStation marketing at Sony America, John Koller, has stated that Sony would ideally like to see simultaneous digital versions of its PSP titles released alongside their retail UMD counterparts. In the back half of this year, we should see a good rise in the amount of content …

GDC 09: Free software targets non-commercial game development

GDC 09: Success of Call of Duty: World at War means five more titles are on the way

A brand new title inspired” by 1995 movie outing Toy Story is on the way to Wii this autumn courtesy of Disney Interactive Entertainment. Interestingly, the game will also support a 3D mode, and comes packed with 3D glasses. Disney is infusing plenty of the third dimension into the Toy …

GDC 09: Version 3.1 due for release in early May

GDC 09: Connected gaming services provider celebrates 10th anniversary

The long-awaited maturing of the MMO genre in the console space will seemingly have to wait a little longer to reach fruition with the news that upcoming SOE pair DC Universe Online and The Agency will not arrive on PS3 until 2010. It had been hoped that at least one …

Infogrames has sold its remaining stake in PAL-fulfillment arm Distribution Partners to Namco Bandai – signalling Atari’s latest step in its quest to eventually become an online-led publisher. Distribution Partners was formed last year, when Namco Bandai acquired a 34 per cent stake in Infogrames’ European and Asian distribution operations. …

Publisher EA has seemingly nailed its flag to the iPhone mast with the news that a number of its key gaming franchises are heading to the platform this year. Edge reports that snowboarding franchise SSX, the return of which was hinted at in the in-game commentary of 2008 racer Burnout …