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With 168 exhibitors across 1,708 booths, Tokyo Game Show 2007 will be the biggest event since it launched. This year’s show – which will take place at Chiba City’s Makuhari Messe from September the 20th to the 23rd – will focus on connected networks, and is expected to attract somewhere …

September CodeWorks event to showcase leading UK studios

CEO of Eidos Bill Gardner has said that the recent PS3 price cut in the US is not sufficient alone to bring the next-gen console to the mass market, reports GamesIndustry.biz . "I don’t think [the price cut] is enough to reach the mass consumer, but I think it is …

Whilst nearly every triple-A PC release is linked with a console port at some stage, some substance has been thrown behind the rumour that upcoming PC FPS Crysis will make the move to 360 and PS3 thanks to develop Crytek’s CEO. CVG reports than in the latest issue of PC …

Decade of business for Molyneux-run studio

Africa very much seems to be the flavour of the month at the moment – first it was Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 making the trip south of Equator, and now it seems Ubisoft is taking its popular FPS franchise in the same direction. CVG reports that as well as ditching …

Casual games company snaps up Russian studio

Psychonauts creator deliver IGDA event talk

Sony’s mantra that ‘only Blu-Ray provides the storage needed for next-gen gaming’ may be the fanboys’ weapon of choice on countless internet forums, but Project Gotham Racing 4 developer Bizarre Creations has admitted that it has had to cut features in its upcoming racer due to the limited size of …

Tax credit would bring in $5m extra a year, says GDAA