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Following a powerhouse first week in the UK charts, Activision’s Call of Duty 4 has succeeded in beating Gears of War to become the second most played game on Xbox Live – behind only the might of Halo 3. And developer Infinity Ward has already announced that an update to …

Microsoft and Xbox supreme J Allard has said that both its Xbox 360 games console and portable MP3 player Zune are ultimately designed to connect to the same network, sparking talk that the music machine could yet play host to gaming. Speaking to The New York Times, Allard stated: "The …

The North American arm of Japanese publisher and developer Atlus has been confirmed as an official third party publisher, Next-Gen reports. Atlus USA will specialise in bringing niche Japanese-produced titles to Microsoft’s system, the first two of which will be RPG duo Operation Darkness and Spectral Force 3, both of …

IGN reports that according to data from Media Create Nintendo’s popular handheld console the DS has now sold over 20 million units in Japan. The original model succeeded in shifting 6 million units in the first 14 months on the market, but since the arrival of the redesigned DS Lite …

Developer-centric PR agency grabs first client

Develop reports that Sony has cut the price of PlayStation 3 development kits in a bid to ”contribute to cost-saving measures of the development community". SCEI said the prices for the PS3 SDK will be reduced to $10,250 in North America, 950,000 Yen in Japan and €7,500 in Europe. At …

Australian game development trade association announces new board of directors as well

Crysis developer to lecture at Hochschule Darmstadt

Debug units now also support programming, not just QA

Spearheaded by a 151 per cent increase in US net sales and a 332 per cent growth in US dollar sales, Codemasters is celebrating its most impressive ever year for the 12 months ending June 30th 2007. Overall group sales for the period increased by 38 per cent, hitting 71.5 …