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You’ve built Oxygen to a position where it releases top-line titles associated with recognisable franchises on all popular formats. How have you ensured this increasing level of success? Primarily thanks to consumers who desire the kind of content we create and retail partners that are prepared to put our games …

Recently established US start-up video games firm Brash Entertainment has announced that it is to publish a game adaptation of 20th Century Fox’s upcoming movie of Alvin And The Chipmunks. The rhythm title is slated for release on Wii, PC, PS2 and DS during the Christmas period in the US …

Just two weeks after Bizarre Creations both confirmed and then denied that the storage limits of Xbox 360’s DVD format has lead to cuts in the feature-set of Project Gotham Racing 4, Epic’s Mark rein has now said that the 360 version of Unreal Tournament III might pack fewer features …

Bad news for music fans – it now seems unlikely that EA’s Rock Band will arrive in Europe this year, following comments from an EA UK representative on Gamespot . However, the game is still on track for a Q4 arrival in North America. Though no reason has been given …

Stubbs the Zombie creator opens up a casual development arm

Excitebike 64 developer to produce Nitrobike for Wii

Mo-cap company offering new animations for Second Life avatars

Our monthly exclusive look at an upcoming game's audio work takes a trip to see Heavenly Sword

In our monthly look behind the scenes on the audio production of a recently released or upcoming game, John Broomhall speaks to Ninja Theory's Tom Colvin and SCEE's Garry Taylor about the making of music and sound FX in Heavenly Swordâ?¦

In an interview in the latest issue of Famitsu, Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken about how he intends to balance difficulty and accessibility in Super Mario Galaxy. At last June’s E3 conference, Miyamoto said that Nintendo intended to break down the wall separating hardcore and casual games. When asked by Famitsu …