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It has been announced that Atari to distribute upcoming FPS Legendary: The Box in European territories. The 360, PS3 and PC game is being developed by Spark Unlimited, the studio behind Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, and is due for release next Spring. The …

It’s been in the works for a while, and now Nintendo has finally unveiled Wii’s much discussed music game, which is titled, perhaps unsurprisingly, WiiMusic. Whether or not it is the same game, or an evolution of, the title Shigeru Miyamoto famously played at Nintendo’s E3 press conference in 2006 …

It’s been in the works for a while, and now Nintendo has finally unveiled Wii’s much discussed music game, which is titled, perhaps unsurprisingly, WiiMusic. Whether or not it is the same game, or an evolution of, the title Shigeru Miyamoto famously played at Nintendo’s E3 press conference in 2006 …

French publisher Ubisoft has ruled itself out of the race to acquire the SCi Group, saying it has ‘no intention’ of buying the Eidos parent firm. SCi revealed that it had received several approaches last month – and Ubisoft’s name was immediately touted as a possible suitor. But a spokesperson …

French publisher Ubisoft has ruled itself out of the race to acquire the SCi Group, saying it has ‘no intention’ of buying the Eidos parent firm. SCi revealed that it had received several approaches last month – and Ubisoft’s name was immediately touted as a possible suitor. But a spokesperson …

Games and film properties to be created in deal with Abu Dhabi Media Company

Games and film properties to be created in deal with Abu Dhabi Media Company

Following its arrival on Valve’s Steam network and ahead of its retail release in the UK next week, The Orange Box is on target to become possibly the highest rated games release of all time. CVG reports that The Orange Box currently has an average review score of 98 on …

Following its arrival on Valve’s Steam network and ahead of its retail release in the UK next week, The Orange Box is on target to become possibly the highest rated games release of all time. CVG reports that The Orange Box currently has an average review score of 98 on …

MCV sister site Develop reports that Sony‘s acquisition of Evolution and BigBig Studios cost the company 16 million, according to the Liverpool Daily Post. Based in Runcorn and founded in 1999, Evolution has developed the WRC series exclusively for Sony and most recently the PS3 launch title MotorStorm. Spin-off studio …