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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 …

Founder and current boss of Rockstar Leeds Gordon Hall has warned other video games firms that they should rally behind the developer against the BBFC’s decision to ban Manhunt 2 – or face similar prohibition in the future. Hall told MCV sister magazine Develop that the outlawing of the title …

Owners of Microsoft’s basic Core Xbox 360 may soon find themselves unable to play the latest titles following Microsoft’s announcement that developers of online MMO games will be allowed to design their titles for use on hard drive-enabled machines only. Devs will be able to create a single ‘Master Storage …