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Michel Guillemot to look at pushing down barriers to mobile development success

Mario may be making a triple dent on the Wii charts at the moment with the success of Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Party 8, but the plumber’s high-flying antics look set to receive a further boost next year with the confirmation of a …

Burnout Paradise, the racer which has been dubbed the first ‘proper’ next-gen instalment in the series, will arrive in Europe on both Xbox 360 and PS3 on January 25th, Eurogamer reports. The wait for Criterion’s latest instalment in its manic racing franchise has certainly been a long one, but the …

A brand new trailer for Rockstar’s massively anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV, entitled ‘Move up, ladies’, is due to hit the virtual airwaves tonight at 8:00pm. The last time the publisher unleashed a GTAIV trailer on the internet the huge web traffic forced the company’s official site to a crushing …

Australian developer facing financial difficulties, says source

If there’s one thing we should know about Nintendo it’s that its games tend to carry on selling – so a number two debut in the Japanese software charts for Nintendo’s Wii Fit can be considered an extremely strong debut. Its 261,000 week one sales were not quite enough to …

Pixel Shader 2.0 support heads improvement charge

Koch and Nintendo alum takes new General Manager role, overseeing product approval process

ELSPA has responded to the new DCMS Select Committee review into the potential effects of harmful content, adding that it takes adult content ‘very seriously’ We welcome the announcement of the DCMS Select Committee to hold an enquiry into ‘potential risks from harmful material on the Internet and in video …

Even excluding the hefty coin from console hardware (which has no equivalent in the film world), games sales alone are up 27 per cent from the same period in 2006, to $5 billion, according to the NPD Group. When it comes to sequel-itis, the film business is clearly in the …