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Publisher THQ has told MCV of its delight following the success of its Wii sports title Big Beach Sports. The game was released at the end of June and has remained in the UK Top Ten ever since. And THQ’s marketing director John Webb feels that the Wii had a …

B-rep, kinematics and external shader system support feature in latest version

And, as our front page this week demonstrates, it certainly ain’t doing things by halves. Indeed, our deputy editor Jonathon Harker came back from the supermarket’s Music, Video and Game Conference in Leeds with eyebrows still raised at Asda’s official announcements – and the further suggestions from general manager of …

Ubisoft has become the latest big name publisher to lend its support to this year’s Games Media Awards. The publisher will be sponsoring the Mainstream Magazine Games Writer category, one of ten titles up for grabs at the event. Head of communications Lidia Rumley commented: It’s great to be able …

Publisher LucasArts is busy preparing its biggest licensing programme for its upcoming video game epic, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The title is due out on September 19th on PSP, Wii, DS, PS3, Xbox 360 and PS2, and Lucas is treating the game as if it’s a full theatrical release, …

Long-rumoured but still unconfirmed Pandemic game failed to capture current Batman buzz

Motion capture studio joins UK developers' trade association

Legendary designer to talk about the development of Wii Music; Capcomâ??s Keiji Inafune to also speak

Microsoft has announced that Fable II will be released in North America and the UK in October. The title will ship to US retailers on October 21st and UK stores three days later. The platform holder said that subsequent release dates throughout the rest of the world would arrive ‘in …

An officially licensed Dark Knight game does exist – according to both an insider at EA studio Pandemic and Batman movie actor Gary Oldman. No evidence of the game tie-in has been offered by either Electronic Arts or franchise owner Warner Bros. The movie release has smashed Box Office records …