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The developer drafted in by Konami to work on the upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadows has said that while the game will be shipping on a single Blu-ray disc for PS3, the Xbox 360 SKU will have to be put onto two DVDs. Furthermore, it thinks that the problem is …

Though it’s never likely to emerge as a games platform to rival the likes of iPad or the DS, Amazon has released two games that are compatible with its Kindle ereader device. Shuffled Row and Every Word are both available to download for free right now. Both, unsurprisingly, are word …

Though we’re accustomed to games once exclusive to PSN making the move to retail, Sony has bucked the trend and moved one of its most important retail releases to its digital portal. LittelBigPlanet, which was released in November 2008 on the High Street, will arrive on the UK arm of …

Seeing as the wait for Gran Turismo 5 has been such a long one, Sony is hoping that dedicated fans of the series have had plenty of time to save up for the recently announced 149.99 Signature Edition of the game. Included in the metallic black metal case is a …

Media group Future has reported what it describes as an encouraging” two per cent year-on-year rise in revenue for its 2010 Q3. Year-to-date revenues for the group are down three per cent however, though this compares favourably with the five per cent dip seen in the first half of the …

A crossover of the much-loved Tekken and Street Fighter series will keep the beat ‘em up genre fresh. That’s according to Capcom and Namco, who last week announced they will join forces for two 360/PS3 games that merge the franchises. The publishers claim the new games – one handled by …

EA has confirmed that a sequel to racing sim Need for Speed: Shift is in development. But not only that – that game will be released in the first three months of 2011. Nothing else is yet known about the title, though expect it to hit on Xbox 360, PS3 …

EA has confirmed that it has delayed the release of Crytek’s tech-heavy console shooter Crysis until the last quarter of its current financial year. This means the game will not longer arrive before Christmas, as had been previously suggested, but will instead hit retail some time between January and March …

Publisher EA has reported income of $96m for the financial quarter ending June 30th 2010, a vast improvement over the $234m loss in suffered in the same period in 2009. Of interest is the fact that digital revenues were up sharply, reaching $176m. Last year that figure stood at $117m, …

Oxford tech studio and developer NaturalMotion has secured a deal with KFC that will see the fast-food giant sponsor a free version of the morpheme company’s Backbreaker game. The promotion, lasting a month, grants players acces to 10 specially selected ‘waves’ and a range of community tools which have, up …