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Despite its belief that the next few years will bring massive profit to those who’ve invested in Sony’s high-def disc format Blu-Ray, Korean electronics firm Samsung has stated that it thinks Blu-Ray will be dead by 2013. Speaking to Pocket-Lint, Samsung UK’s director of consumer electronics Andy Griffiths stated: I …

Legendary developer to talk on creating 'believable game worlds'

Sega has confirmed that Sports Interactive’s Football Manager 2009 will be released on PC, Mac and PSP on November 14th – but there’s bad news for console owners with the confirmation that there’s no Xbox 360 version planned this year. The details were revealed last night at a London press …

SCEA’s hardware marketing director John Koller has released a statement correcting claims he made earlier in the week regarding that battery life of the firm’s upcoming PSP 3000. On Monday he stated that the machine’s brighter screen would reduce its operating time by up to 30 minutes – however, a …

Tecmo has released a statement claiming that it has rejected Square Enix’s bid to take over the firm. The statement, translated by Kotaku, reads: For Tecmo, this proposal was received in a short span of time, but within the company we collected opinions from management and game creators as well …

Just hours after analysts predicted a North American price drop , Microsoft has confirmed that is has dropped the RRP on all three of its Xbox 360 SKUs – with the now sub-$200 Arcade pack leading the charge. Coming in below the price of rival Nintendo’s popular Wii, Microsoft has …

Developer rejects Square Enix takeover in favour of Dynasty Warriors firm

Quebec's developers conference returns for a fifth year; Braben to keynote

The product manager for Fallout 3 developer Bethesda Pete Hines has said that different sensitivities in different global regions are a source of frustration for the firm, CVG reports. The statement comes after the studio was forced to make a number of changes to its upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG in order …

Tech firm to be in charge of facial animation for developer's Operation Flashpoint 2