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One year on from the release of the globally popular PS3 version of Sony’s SingStar series, the platform holder has announced that the long awaited backwards compatibility update will be released today. To read the full story, click here to head over to CasualGaming.biz.

One of the most famous pieces of vapourware is back with the news that Phantom has actually launched its online games portal – and the firm still insists that its Phantom Lapboard is on track for release next year. The online store features 2,600 PC games including recent releases such …

Canadaâ??s largest indie picks up studio from Activision Blizzard

Japanese developer and publisher Square Enix has announced that its recent Xbox 360 RPG release The Last Remnant will be released on PC across all PAL territories next spring. The format status of the game has been a constant source of speculation. For some time it was believed the game …

With just a week to go before the official Christmas number one is revealed, Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty: World at War has enjoyed its fifth consecutive week at the top of the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40. The WWII epic fought off stiff competition from Mario Kart Wii, …

Various sources across the industry are speculating that EA’s Black Box studio in Canada may soon be closed. Speculation from unnamed sources also suggests that because of the less than favourable nature of reviews of Need For Speed: Undercover, which also suffered relatively poor sales compared to previous iterations of …

Speculation about studioâ??s closure rife in the wake of EAâ??s job cuts

UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph this weekend published its extensive 50 Best Games of 2008 list, and Microsoft and Lionhead’s Fable II was the paper’s pick of the bunch for standout titles over the last 12 months. The hardcore centric list leads with two of the year’s biggest RPGs – …

Nordic Game Programme distributes funding to a final clutch of projects for 2008

Grand Theft Auto developer and publisher Rockstar has announced that its debut DS outing for the series, entitled GTA: Chinatown Wars, will be released in Europe on March 20th. The game is set to arrive at North American retail slightly earlier – March 17th. Rockstar had previously hinted that the …