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The Xbox 360’s Xbox Originals service, which allows gamers to download full Xbox games on their console, is set for a boost next week with the arrival of three new titles. EA’s trigger-happy FPS Black will be joined by Tecmo’s pseudo-sequel Ninja Gaiden Black and 2K Games’ Sid Meier’s Pirates …

Boss of French middleware initiative says team is already thinking ahead to PlayStation 4

German studio to showcase self-developed and partners' titles

Gaming has supposedly got a race war going on thanks to BBC One’s consumer rights show Watchdog . Last night’s edition granted five minutes to claims that that voice recognition technology used in Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on DS discriminates against those with Northern accents as it struggles to …

IGN is reporting that Konami’s popular footballing series is to undergo a name change in North America – dropping the Winning Eleven formula and instead adopting the until-now European-only Pro Evolution Soccer mantle. The series will continue under the Winning Eleven brand in Japan, where PES2008 was known as Winning …

When a cabal of French developers announced their intention to work together on shared next- and current-gen technology, many wondered if such a scheme could ever work out in practice. Develop caught up with project manager Anne Dévouassoux to find out how the group intends to see their vision through�

It was one of the first triple-A titles on Xbox 360 upon its release in late 2006, and now rumours of a sequel to Dead Rising have emerged – along with some speculation concerning a change of development duties. The March issue of US games mag EGM claims that the …

PC and console graphics hardware firm Nvidia has signed an agreement to purchase Ageia, the creators of popular physics engine PhysX. Ageia’s engine has been used in over 140 games on a number of consoles including PS3, 360 and Wii, as well as on PC. "The AGEIA team is world …

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SCEJ has confirmed that it will launch a Satin Silver version of its PS3 console in Japan on March 6th. Costing just under YEN 40,000 (around 190) the 40GB machine will also include a silver version of the new rumbling Dualshock 3 joypad. The Dualshock 3, as well as both …