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Studios from UK, Europe, Brazil, India and China up for 70,000 Euro prize

Developer Namco Bandai has confirmed that its two previously platform-exclusive Soul Calibur IV characters Darth Vader and Yoda will both be available to download on Xbox Live and PSN respectively this Thursday. Until now, Yoda was exclusive to the Xbox 360 version and Darth Vader to the PS3 version. However, …

London Games Fringe event to feature talks from Introversion and Blitz

Following the news late last Friday that Sony’s LittleBigPlanet has been delayed owing to some questionable content in one of its songs, developer Media Molecule has publicly expressed its disappointment – though that hasn’t stopped eBay traders rushing to make big profits from the delay. A quick search on eBay …

Liverpool-based resource headed by industry vet Ivan Davies

Girls Aloud, Jamie and Louise Redknapp, Fern Britton and husband Phil Vickery and Ronan Keating’s family will all star in Nintendo’s new marketing campaign. The push kicks off from October 27th. Nintendo describes the latest line-up as Natural choices in light of their appeal to a wide range of audiences …

Games journalists must hear this all the time. And I doubt it gets any easier defending their noble profession to those toiling at the tax office or selling insurance for a living. Clearly, games journalists get an awful lot of perks – press trips, free games and other tat, PRs …

Sony has confirmed that its highly anticipated LittleBigPlanet has been pushed back to an unspecified date, following the discovery of Qur’an expressions in the soundtrack. The game was due to be released on October 24th in Europe and October 21st in North America, and is tipped to be the PlayStation …

The first time appeared to be a freak one-off; the second a remarkable achievement and the third was simply astonishing – and now Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has outsold Sony’s PS3 for the fourth week in a row in Japan. CVG reports that Xbox 360 sold 7,763 units for the week …

Western studios 'well built to handle large-scale development', says iNiS co-founder Yano