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SCi Entertainment has announced that it has waived its ‘standstill’ agreement with Warner Bros until December 1st – meaning that the entertainment media giant can increase its share count to 30 per cent without consultation. According to SCi: ‘[The deal] restricts the ability of Warner Bros and its affiliates to …

Xbox Live boss John Schappert has told MCV that Xbox Live’s role as an ‘online retailer’ is taking the pressure off the battle for High Street shelf space. Speaking in the build-up to the ‘revolutionary’ Xbox Live Dashboard update next month, Schappert said: There are games coming that would not …

We’ve heard stories of publisher execs threatened with the sack if a certain game doesn’t make the top three. And the amount of marketing cash sloshing around the industry currently is absolutely mind-boggling. Girls Aloud, Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby combined might sound like an adolescent onanist’s fantasy, but for …

Why is something that’s effectively a software update being treated as so important by Microsoft? My feeling is that this is our most important day since we launched the Xbox 360. It truly does reinvent the machine. It’s our goal to turn it from a pure games machine to a …

Rein brushes off latest gossip that Unreal Engine is being bought film financier Legendary

Ahead of London Games Festival 2008, which starts this Saturday (October 26th), the event organisers have told MCV that they want to involve all of Europe. Our long-term aim is to take it beyond the borders and make it one of the key highlights across the whole of Europe,” LGF …

Molyneux tells us that making Fable 2 re-taught him game design and calmed his 'creative whirlwind' approach

Newly signed attendees include BigWorld, Dolby and Autodesk

German institution's facial animation tools applied to Quantum of Solace

This weekend is the last chance for you to have a say in this year’s Golden Joystick Awards. Voting closes at noon on Monday (October 27th) and the event has already broken records for the number of people who have taken part, with almost 800,000 nominations having been registered. The …