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SIGGRAPH 07: Development environment brings Cellâ??s power to all

Mobile games 2.0 vision becomes reality with DChoc Café.

GPL infringement forces patch to idâ??s DOS titles; incident still not over

Following the tremendous success of its once mocked and now reverenced motion-sensing Wii console, it has emerged that Nintendo has filed a patent for a motion-sensing handheld console, CVG reports . Filed only a few months ago on March 30th, the patent reads: The housing [console] incorporates an XY-axis acceleration …

Following last week’s removal of PSOne title MediEvil from Sony’s PS3 download network PlayStation Network following the discovery of a game-crashing bug, two more titles have experienced technical problems and been temporarily removed. As you have probably noticed by now, Spyro 2 and Crash Bandicoot 2 have also been temporarily …

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...