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Microsoft has confirmed to MCV that it is committed to releasing a trilogy of Too Human games – and compared the narrative pull of the story to Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings. Reviews have begun to come in for the first title online, from sites such as IGN, …

Sega has officially confirmed that a new House of The Dead title will be released on Wii early next year. The company calls the title ‘an all-new pulp-horror reinventionof the classic SEGA light-gun shooter franchise’. House Of The Dead: Overkill has been created by London-based studio Headstrong Games (formerly Kuju …

Japan Studio-developed AFRIKA supervised by society's Venture subsidiary

Emergent and Nvidia parter to integrate physics tech in next version

Standard licensing terms now available for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 games

Nintendo of America sales and marketing boss Cammie Dunaway has admitted that the firm was ‘disappointed’ with its performance at E3. Speaking to VGChartz, Dunaway said that she wishes the firm has shown off a new Wario game on stage, as well as other more ‘harcore’ titles. She said: I …

Xbox 360 has outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 in Japan for the first time, thanks to the popularity of the new Namco Bandai role-playing game Tales of Vesperia. According to Ascii Media Works, Microsoft sold 28,116 Xbox 360 consoles in Japan in the week ended August 10th, over double Sony’s sales …

'Everybody with money to spend on development is looking at iPhone,' says UK team Doublesix

Duke Nukem 3D will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade ‘soon’, according to developer 3D Realms. On its official website, the firm has announced that the title has achieved ‘final certification’ from Microsoft, and that it is now in the platform holder’s ‘hands’. The site reads: ‘We’ve been asked about …

A British woman has been ordered to pay US games developer Topware Interactive 16,000 for illegally downloading one of its games from a file-sharing site. According to The Telegraph, the prosecution could open the floodgates for other games, music and film companies to claim back millions of pounds in damages …