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A new layout for the Shop Channel and some interface alterations are the main talking points of Nintendo’s updated firmware release for its Wii console – with version 3.0 now available for download. Along with the addition of a digital clock on the bottom of the Wii Channel menu, several …

After spending two weeks at second spot in the ChartTrack All Formats Top 40, Activision’s Transformers: The Game has finally secured first place at the third attempt, usurping Nintendo’s Pokemon Diamond in the process. However, it’s still good news for Nintendo – the firm increases its stranglehold on the Top …

LocoRoco designer discusses the challenges involved in introducing new ideas, but repeats call for more originality.

I’m not sure the long-term outlook really is. There is a structural problem with specialist entertainment-media retail and it is one that threatens to bring the whole thing down. You’re expecting me to say digital distribution but I’m talking about something even more fundamental than that. I’m talking about one …

From a designer struggling to get his concept approved to a man in demand to speak at conferences all across the world: it's been a crazy two years for LocoRoco director Tsutomu Kouno. Develop caught up with the man himself to talk originality, LocoRoco's gestation and 'that' racism allegation...

One of the most anticipated games bound for Xbox Live, Konami’s 1983 arcade sports title Track & Field, will finally arrive on the service tomorrow at a cost of 400 Microsoft points. The game will stay true to the original, boasting the same array of button-bashing sports events. It will …

Love it when a plan comes together? What about when it doesn't? Outsourcing is the most cost efficient way to manage development, but it can be ruined by bad planning. We asked outsourcers to offer advice on how studios should brief suppliers and get the best out of themâ?¦

As of tomorrow (08/08), American gamers will be able to pick up an Elite console for $449, the limited edition Halo 3 console will be $399 at launch, the standard SKU will come in at $349 and the core will retail for $279. Dubbing its games portfolio as ‘the greatest …

SIGGRAPH 07: IGS-190 inertial gyroscopic motion capture system gets showing after Brighton debut

SIGGRAPH 07: Studio from former Blizzard execs chooses NaturalMotion animation tool for new MMO