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It was the year casual games went from the worst kept multi-million dollar secret in the games business to its potential saviour. Favoured with big investments from venture capitalists and growing interest from the likes of EA, Microsoft, Jagex, Apple and latterly Sega, casual games execs have walked with a …

As Sony’s open Home beta approaches the end of its first week, the firm has asserted that it believes the virtual world service will eventually grow to become a key selling point for the firms’s PS3 console. Speaking to CVG, Home service manager for SCEE Dan Hill stated: In time …

PixelActive adds multi-user support to urban world editor for version 1.6

Nintendo has announced it will release game in 2009 designed to help encourage people to develop and maintain a walking routine as part of a healthy lifestyle. Entitled Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine?, the DS game will come with two specially designed pedometers to measure the …

Dead Space dev working on third person outing based on Danteâ??s The Divine Comedy

Were you surprised by your win?Surprised would be an understatement. I won last year too – so I really thought that there was no way the industry would vote for me or that the GMA organisers would let me win two years in a row. Plus, last year I had …

Following speculation last month, Electronic Arts has confirmed that its Redwood Shores studio, the outfit behind the firm’s recent successful new survival horror IP Dead Space, is working on a brand new horror property based on Dante’s medieval epic. Dante’s 14th century text The Divine Comedy is one of the …

Zavvi is selling the Xbox 360 for under 100 for the first time in its history, MCV has learnt. In a last-minute Christmas sale, the company has reduced the Arcade SKU to 99.99 – news which could kick off festive a hardware price war on the High Street. The Premium …

Still no plans to open own studio in the territory, as SCE India focuses on partnerships

Zavvi has reportedly opened a separate bank account to deposit takings from shoppers who have bought store vouchers. Zavvi believes that the funds will be protected from an administrator if it is forced to cease trading. EUK, the distribution division of Woolworths, is believed to be owed about 100m by …