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Hot on the heels of the FIFA ’09 price battle , Asda has slashed the price of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 to just 27 on Xbox 360 and PS3. The supermarket chain is also giving copies of the PS3 version away with every PlayStation 3 console bought. Elsewhere, Blockbuster has …

Lara's latest adventure powered by BabelFlux's middleware

Former GCDC chief Frank Sliwka to organise dev part of new Cologne show

Q&A with FreeStyleGames' Chris Lee details reasoning behind former independent studio's decision to go in-house

In part two of our extensive chat with Japanese music game specialist iNiS, co-founder Keiichi Yano talks about the company's foundations and how it strives to use game mechanics to uncover and augment the emotions latent in music...

Community Games to release alongside NXE on November 19th

The UK games market’s rising stars are set to battle it out for industry recognition, as MCV lines up its annual presentation of the top 30 hot shots aged under 30. The feature will once again highlight the achievements and exertions of the industry’s younger execs working across the UK …

EA has confirmed that its Be the One event will once again invade Trafalgar Square and act as a glitzy centrepiece to London Games Festival week. On October 31st and November 1st the public are invited to join the giant publisher to play some of its latest titles, with a …

Ahead of its European release this Friday, the first reviews of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 are in, and it seems that the Japanese developer’s latest has pleased its fans. CVG has scored the game 8.8/10, stating: Despite the lack of movement regarding the new modes, licenses and Master League …

‘England wonderboy Theo Walcott owes his Three Lions success to footie computer games.’ That’s according to the Daily Star, which today reports that the England star practises his skills on FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer when on tour with the national side – and that both games have improved his …