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With Sony’s latest PS3 firmware now out in the wild and seemingly hurting no-one (unlike its direct predecessor ), Jak and Daxter developer Naughty Dog has told Joystiq that a patch which enables Trophy support in its successful PS3 title Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune will be out next month. The studio’s …

Swedish studio signed by Hollywood giants to male video game sequel to Wanted

Halo developer Bungie has confirmed that the much-rumoured announcement it was prepping for E3 did exist, but that it was pulled by the developer’s publisher at the last moment. The story so far runs like this: Pre-E3 rumours began to mount that something Halo related was being planned for E3, …

A new next-gen outing for retro franchise Golden Axe lead Sega’s offering at this year’s E3. Golden Axe: Beast Rider takes the classic on-foot brawler and throws beast-mounted combat into the mix in a game that promises to expand upon the mythology first explored in the 1989 arcade and Mega …

'There will be a number of people at Vivendi Games who are going to be terminated,' says COO

SPECIAL REPORT: High Street giant to help small studios possibly ignored by big publishers

Swedish game developer to provide two more embedded titles for 2009

In a second snippet from the IGN interview with Nintendo development boss and all-round gaming superstar Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of gaming icon Mario had some interesting comments regarding Microsoft’s recently announced avatar system : I don’t really use the term avatar to refer to what we’ve done with the …

E3 08: Halo creator says plans to showcase new game 'were changed by our publisher'

Developer of Super Monkey Ball for Apple device wants to build on past week's success