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In the opening talk kicking off this week’s Edinburgh Interactive Festival, former Sony CEO Chris Deering offered a glimpse into the immediate future of the games market, predicting a global market of 2.5bn potential gamers by 2011. Traditional games platforms like DS, Wii and PS3 will hit a total installed …

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Global retail games sales will drop by a full 20 per cent over the next three years – and publishers will be forced to explore non-traditional distribution methods in order to afford increasing development costs. That’s according to Codemasters chairman – and MCV Legend – Chris Deering who told attendees …

A new survey from US research firm ABI has suggested that consumers are not that interested in Bu-Ray technology, with only 23 per cent of the 1000 respondents claiming they were thinking of investing in the technology sometime in the next year. TechTree reports that over half of those questioned …

Booming AppStore proves Apple handset is viable platform for games development, says Sega

Flagship Studios may have recently laid off most of its staff, but veterans from the studio’s Seattle office have banded together to launch a new studio. To read the story in full, click here for a quick trip to Developmag.com.

Its popularity on Xbox 360 was great enough to make its recently confirmed move to Wii a reality, but now developer Capcom has hinted that Dead Rising may also be upping sticks and heading over to Sony’s PS3. Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, Capcom’s John Diamonon responded to a …

UK broadsheet The Times is reporting that Nintendo has ‘banned’ its legendary development guru Shigeru Miyamoto from discussing his hobbies with the outside world as the firm fears such talk may offer an insight into what he has planned next for the company. Apparently, titles such as Brain Training, Wii …

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