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Speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian , UK Xbox boss Neil Thompson has insisted that his company did not back the wrong horse when it supported Toshiba and its HD-DVD high definition disc format. "The horse that we’re fundamentally backing is the one that says the future of entertainment content …

Gamers have already faced a lengthly wait to get their hands on Atari’s latest instalment to its Alone in the Dark series – and the wait has seemingly lengthened just that bit more with the news that the game has slipped from May to June. Videogamer.com reports that the publisher …

Training meet to take place at fmx festival

The first issue of CVG Presents… hits shelves on April 16th, and is based on a minor Rockstar title you may have heard of called GTA IV, offering a comprehensive mix of newly-commissioned editorial and features from the Future archive. It plans to be a coffee-table style publication, and is …

Game design competition becomes '4Dare' and open to students in UK, Germany, China and India

$1m prize fund available to modders using Unreal Engine 3

Dr John Charlton of Bolton University has discovered that game playing can dominate users’ lives, causing them to miss sleep and meals. Dr Charlton studied almost 400 regular players of online role-playing game Asheron’s Call. The studied showed that the closer the gamers came to being addicted, the more they …

Home represents arguably the biggest single development in next-gen gaming, and is certainly massive news for PS3 – so it’s not surprising that talk of a public beta for the virtual world service has sent the internet into a frenzy. A poster on Sony’s US PlayStation blog has uploaded scans …

Seemingly just moments after snapping up the rights to all things Tom Clancy, Ubisoft has announced a new title branded with the anti-terror author’s moniker – HAWX. Standing for High Altitude Warfare X, the Ubisoft Bucharest developed title will, as the name suggest, bring the flight sim genre to the …

With professional quality plug-ins, superior vocal suppression and sophisticated surround upmixing, SingStarâ??s audio technology and production processes have hit the high notes.