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EIF Chairman Chris Deering has unveiled plans to celebrate video game art at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008. The EIF boss has called on game development teams to showcase single frames captured from actual play in their games for the ‘Expo Of Art’. Any game that has not yet been …

E3 08: California firm's kit chosen due to its durability and power, says Nintendo

Rising Star has revealed their latest DS title, Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome. Originally released on PC last year, the casual title will be avaiable on DS on October 10th across most PAL territories his year. Promising a ‘satisfyingly addictive gameplay experience’, the title uses the Jewel Master puzzle mechanic …

Sony made an important announcement regarding its PS3 hardware strategy at last night’s E3 conference, confirming that from September its focus would be laid solely on its 80GB model. The hardware will drop from $499 (as it was in the MGS4 bundle) to $399 and will replace the existing 40GB …

Were new Mario and Zelda titles for Wii confirmed at E3? It seemed so when Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told an excited E3 audience that our internal teams that make Mario and Zelda are both hard at work, and will bring new titles to Wii”. But talk soon turned to …

E3 08: New handheld GTA to be subtitled Chinatown Wars

'Expo of Art' to run at this year's Edinburgh Interactive Festival

We know that Dead Rising 2 is in development, and if talk is to be believed , it may even be in development at a Western studio, but the E3 attention has turned to the apparent confirmation from Japanese games bible Famitsu that a port of the first title is …

Halo fans saddened by not only the complete absence of Halo content from Microsoft’s E3 conference , but also the release date slip of Halo Wars , can now take solace in the apparent confirmation from Microsoft that a new Halo title is indeed in development. In an interview with …

Ubisoft has announced a sequel to its 2007 action title Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, entitled Naruto: The Broken Bond, set to release in time for Christmas this year. The title will feature an online multiplayer mode that gives players the chance to compete in tournaments. Based on the world-renowned …