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Oberon's pairing of bestselling author and Gabriel Knight creator plans to blend casual games with adventure titles

Training firm TwelveJ signs up 'Acting For Animators' instructor Ed Hooks to teach devs

Lighting tech demoed in GDC08 teaser

The 2008 Tom Clancy bandwagon looks set to at last get rolling next-month when Ubisoft releases Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 arrives on 360, PS3 and PC. The game promises a greater level of co-op play than the first outing, as well as a greater array of online options …

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�