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Organisers of next year’s Gamescom have confirmed that the Cologne-based even will boast a games development conference. The inaugural conference takes place in September 2009, and comes as many of the participating publishers from the Leipzig trade and retail conference look to create a new event in better-located part of …

Microsoft’s Xbox Live boss has told MCV that Xbox 360 definitely has the power to handle” Metal Gear Solid 4 – and talked of his admiration for Kojima-san’s masterpiece”. John Schappert, the firm’s corporate vice-president of Live, Software and Services, said that he would love to see the game come …

While the Disney of old might prompt images of Mickey Mouse and charming early movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the modern, colossally powerful corporation has undoubtedly moved on. Family-friendly entertainment remains at its core, of course – but in 2008, the likes of Zac Efron, Vanessa Hugdens …

fbFund awards company's Social Arcade game-creation tool

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