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Some has suspected that in the light of the upcoming Xbox Originals service on Xbox Live, Microsoft’s support of its ongoing backwards compatibility efforts on 360 might wane – but next month’s ‘Fall Update’ will bring with it a renewed roster of compatible Xbox games. Newly-functioning titles will include FIFA …

Union grants disgruntled wordsmiths permission to script interactive entertainment

Leading platform holder Nintendo is celebrating success on two fronts after announcing that both its home console the Wii and its portable machine the DS have racked up huge sales over the Thanksgiving weekend and through the month of November as a whole. The Wii sold 350,000 units throughout Thanksgiving …

California HQ'd mobile developer Javagrounds chooses Canada for expansion

Game designer examines games' cultural impact, BioShock's shortcomings and other design pitfalls in second MIGS keynote

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