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Nintendo of America’s award-winning president Reggie Fils-Aime has praised rival Sony for its upcoming title LittleBigPlanet, whilst also adding good words about Microsoft’s Halo franchise and 2K Games’ 360 shooter Bioshock. CVG reports that Fils-Aime told SFGate.com that: "I’ve been very intrigued with Little Big Planet, although I don’t know …

MCV’s sister site Develop reports that Testronic Labs has appointed Thorsten Heinze as the head of its games division. Having previously worked at the likes of Nintendo, Crytek and Vivendi, Heinze will be tasked with driving forward business growth for the testing firm. The firm, which is owned by German …

Following MCV’s exclusive interview with BBFC senior examiner Gianni Zamo , fellow examiner Jim Cliff has spoken to consumer site Spong about the Board’s decision to ban the game from sale in the UK – and has answered of the reoccurring questions surrounding the debate. When asked at GameCity how …

It seems to be an argument that is picking up momentum – first EA’s Gerhard Florin calls for a unified single games platform, and then Silicon Knights boss Dennis Dyack backs him up. And now Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has added his approval to the debate. Talking to GameSpot …

UKTI's examination of games industry available to download

I’d filled a lab with a cornucopia of games technology, from deafening arcade machines to tiny pocketable gadgets, and then over a period of some time, watched carefully as the under 20s, and often the under 11s, played them for all they were worth. At the time horror stories were …

Following its previous admission that parts of its upcoming The Simpsons Game had to be cut following complaints from rival Rockstar, some of the development team from EA’s title have lashed out at the developer. Gamepolitics reports that speaking on the US Game Head programme, The Simpson Game’s executive producer …

All has been quiet on the Burnout front in the last few months, but reports that the game is more or less complete and ready to go have been backed by the announcement of the North American release date of January 22nd. However, European gamers have yet to hear when …

It has emerged that the anti-cheating measures Sony implemented for the recently released Eye of Judgement on PS3 can be easily bypassed with the use of a simple colour printer. Eye of Judgement is a card game that comes bundled with the new PS3 EyeToy, the PlayStation Eye. The game …

Euro publisher to release developer's anticipated Wii title in February