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After yesterday’s claims from Sony CEO Howard Stringer that the recent PS3 price drop has seen sales of the machine rocket in North America, the latest sales data from Media Create show that Sony’s machine outsold even the mighty Wii in Japan for the week ending Novemeber 11th. It’s sales …

Movie IP firm founds own game production team in order to "control our own destiny"

Unprecedented full access to foliage technology for amateur level builders

Game Connection presence from firm working on PS3 exclusive

PhysX asset libraries and tools to facilitate physics implementation

Nintendo’s motion sensing technology has brought flapping your arms around in the name of fun out of the shadows and into the mainstream. But it’s not just the Japanese giant targeting this style of gaming. For years, In2Games has dabbled in this field with its GameTrak technology. Now the UK …

The firm has bought out Paris-based Banque Magnetique – which enjoys sales of €245m (170m) – for an undisclosed sum. Banque Magnetique customers include top French IT and electrical retailers, dot-com companies and supermarkets. The company boasts a product range consisting of many brands Gem already handles, including Logitech, Creative, …

Whilst BioWare’s upcoming RPG Mass Effect is lining up to be one of the last great releases of the year when it arrives in Europe next Friday, it has emerged that the game will not be seeing the light of day in Singapore. The country’s Media Development Authority took great …

Cryptic’s massively-multiplayer title Marvel Universe Online is on the verge of being cancelled by publisher Microsoft, a ‘source’ has told NextGen . Speculation has been rife since a 1up podcast mentioned that an anticipated Microsoft Game Studios title was soon to be canned, with internet chatter rising to a level …

Not so long ago, AI was the ingredient many thought would bring about a revolution in gaming. And then physics came along and stole its thunder, leaving it to flounder. We look at what todayâ??s consoles can do to train gamesâ?? brainsâ?¦