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Dark Sector has been refused classification by the OFLC, Australia’s classification board. According to IGN, the third-person action game has been described by the board as a violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome. The violence and aggression inflicted upon the protagonist is of a …

First game from Black Rock (formerly Climax Racing) is off-road racer Pure

NaturalMotion joins Integrated Partners Program

Money will be split between independents Silicon Knights and Digital Extremes

Gerry Berkley, Woolworths A retail stalwart boasting many, many years of expertise, Berkley has mentored many of today’s most successful retail buyers, earning him the moniker ‘the godfather of games buying’. His first involvement with games was at BHS in the 1980s, dealing with Sinclair Spectrum and C64. After a …

With a European release date of September 5th being set for EA’s massively hyped Spore on PC, Mac and DS just hours ago, talk has already shifted to the possibility of Will Wright’s epic arriving on other platforms. Spanish site Revogamers quotes an EA rep as saying that the Wii …

A recent analyst report from EA has let slip that recently-acquired development studio Pandemic is working on a Lord of the Rings title, according to Kotaku . Pandemic rose to fame following its sterling work on war zone sandbox title Mercenaries and multiplayer shooter Star Wars: Battlefront. Nothing is known …

The oft-rumoured relocation of Games Convention away from the Leipzig Messe finally looks to be becoming a reality today – as a prominent German national newspaper reports the show is to move to Cologne next year. According to financial newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the expo will move across Germany in …

ANALYSIS: We look at what the attentions of Disney, Viacom and Warner means for the industry

At E3 last year, Disney Interactive Studio head Graham Hopper declared that games represented the â??future of entertainmentâ? for his company. A remarkable statement from a company with such extensive entertainment interests (ESPN, Pixar, Miramax), and one backed up by hard cash.