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UK developer Sports Interactive has confirmed that its newest title Football manager 2011 will be released in the UK on November 5th. That day will also see the release of Football Manager Handheld 2011. Dates for other territories will be announced is due course. The game includes a new contract …

Cult Japanese developer Cave is seemingly on the brink of bringing its first ever boxed Western release to the UK High Street. In recent times the studio has enjoyed great success on iPhone with hit releases DoDonPachi Resurrection and Espgaluda II, but its recent love for Xbox 360 has been …

Microsoft will not approve the XBLA release of Zombie Cow’s ‘sex education’ title Privates. The game, which is set in various body parts including genitals, was commissioned by Channel 4’s Education Department to educate young people of sexually transmitted diseases. Ultimately Microsoft advised that the game wouldn’t pass the Indie …

US President Barack Obama has announced a new initiative that promotes the development of educational video games. Called the National STEM Video Game Challenge, prizes will be offered to those whose titles are deemed to have best promoted education in science, technology, engineering and math. The scheme is open both …

Anyone seeking a refund on the now-defunct PC MMO title APB should speak to the retailer from whom they purchased the game, the administrator handling the closure of developer Realtime Worlds has stated. The Dundee-based studio went into administration in August following the critical and commercial failure of the game, …

A new and interesting inclusion in Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 has been revealed that will allow gamers to play some aspects of the game remotely via a web browser. GamePro reports that the B-Spec mode – essentially a management option where gamers don’t race per se but instead control the …

The Xbox 360 Kinect will outsell Apple’s highly successful iPad – that’s the claim being made by Microsoft at the Tokyo Game Show. The pre-orders have been really strong,” official Kinect spokesperson Kudo Tsunoda told Gamasutra. As far as what we’re looking at for holiday, this is going to be …

Best Buy’s CEO has hinted that Apple’s iPad is taking market share from laptops. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Brian Dunn said that the retailers internal estimates suggested that iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 per cent.” The revelations come as …

This week saw the launch of the slimmed-down Xbox 360 S in Japan, but figures from Media Create as reported by Spong show that the new console sold just 700 units, accounting for less than 20 per cent of total Xbox 360 hardware sales. The best selling machine of the …

Sony has announced a raft of new hardware SKUs for the Japanese market, and chief amongst them is a 320GB version of the Classic White PS3 first announced in July. It will cost 34,980 and will launch on October 21st. Andriasang also reports that while a Candy Pink PS3 is …