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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

Top global games publisher Activision-Blizzard has announced a number of brand new titles that it has in development – with the headliners being a brand new Wolverine title and a next-gen update to Nazi-hating FPS Wolfenstein. Despite this week’s news that EA has teamed up with id for the publishing …

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