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Whist it remains too early to predict if one format will emerge victorious in the ongoing battle to capture the hi-def disc format crown, Sony’s Blu-Ray standard appears to be winning the European war, having recently broken the one million unit sales barrier. This number represents just under 75 per …

Yoshiaki Koizumi opens Montreal Game Summit with keynote on designing games in 3D

Despite the recent troubles that have seen a management reshuffle and a European ban for its controversial stealth sequel Manhunt 2, chairman Strauss Zelnick has insisted that he has no intention of selling the publisher, and instead expects it to grow going forwards. "I’m much more interested in growing the …

A new channel, dubbed Everybody’s Nintendo, has arrived on the platform holder’s Japanese Wii network allowing console owners to download DS demos and game footage from Wii titles, CVG reports. In much the same way as DS downloads game information for multiplayer gaming, the demos remain accessible on a user’s …

Ai middleware to be used in RealWorld simulation development tool suite for DARPA

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences is to award its prestigious Lifetime Achievement award to the ‘Father of PlayStation’, Ken Kutaragi, at next February’s D.I.C.E. summit , Gamespot reports. Kutaragi will be only the third ever person to receive the accolade, following in the footsteps of Nintendo’s Howard Lincoln …

'Sea Dog' team to join Russian publisher

Appealing lifestyle lures US and European talent, says Vile Studios

One of the things we try to do is carry out research from the perspective of the player. In one of our more recent studies we did a very in-depth survey of about 400 gamers and examined the structural characteristics of gaming. The main variables we examined were sound, graphics, …

GAME A double thumbs-up to the knowledgeable, friendly staff in GAME, who helped MCV around the store to discuss the merits of each platform and title. Ubisoft will be pleased to hear that Assassins Creed had been ‘selling like crazy’, alongside fellow new release Super Mario Galaxy – which was …