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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 …

Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to EA’s Army of Two, according to Variety. The US entertainment paper reports that the studio is looking to ‘fast-track’ the project to begin production in 2009 and has set The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer Scott Z. Burns to pen the script. Scott Stuber will …

Microsoft’ Entertainment and Devices division has reported a $178 million profit for its Q1 for 2008-2009. Income in the period, representing the three months to September 30th, was up 6.18 per cent for the division, which encompasses Microsoft’s Xbox, Microsoft Games Studios, Zune, Mac games and Games For Windows. The …