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2010 marks the fifth year of Take-Two’s label 2K Games.The division was set up in 2005 and has produced smash hits such as BioShock, Carnival Games, Borderlands and the NBA 2K and NHL 2K series. Speaking to MCV, 2K boss Christoph Hartmann explained how far the company has come and …

Within the next 48 hours all three home console platform holders will have shot their E3 load in their anticipated LA press briefings – and MCV will be offering live coverage of each and every one. What should you expect? Well, there’s a brand new handheld from Nintendo, some killer …

After last year’s string of pre-E3 leaks left more or less no surprises for the actual platform holder conferences, there’s an increasing belief that Microsoft has something big up its sleeve for tomorrow’s official E3 press briefing. With Nintendo set to unveil the said-to-be impressive 3DS at its press briefing …

We’d begun to worry that this year’s E3 might not deliver the kind of big surprises we saw at the 2009 event – but Microsoft reckons it has something big up it sleeve. In an email to registered members of Xbox.com, the platform holder states: E3 is the world’s largest …

The publisher of the X Factor game unveiled by MCV last week has been named – it’s Koch Media. After a no-doubt grueling round of auditions and pitches, Koch’s Deep Silver publishing label has met the approval of brand owner FremantleMedia, Simon Cowell’s production firm SyCo and, we assume, fellow …

New instalments of popular gaming franchises are in the works as Capcom revitalises its portfolio. The company has brought several cherished brands back to the High Street in the last few years, including Bionic Commando and the best-selling Street Fighter IV. Now it plans to up the ante and revive …

E3 always manages to produce something special.Whether at its most disastrous (that brief ‘98 pit-stop in Atlanta; the ‘hospital corridor’ of 2008) or its most prosperous (Sony’s ‘Go big or go home’ price-drop warning in 1996; 2005’s unveiling of next-gen machines and boomerang controllers), the show always offers excitement and …

The first four games to come from Microsoft to support the launch of its motion camera Natal have been named – Living Statue, Obstacle Course, River Rush and Ricochet. These titles are expected to form the backbone of Microsoft’s pre-E3 gathering this Sunday. The details of exactly which games will …

Jon Hicks – Editor, OXMPredictably, I’m really looking forward to seeing Project Natal’s real name and launch lineup. Not so much the inevitable fitness games, lovely though I’m sure they’ll be, but the more innovative uses of the platform – Natal is a really interesting technology, and I can dimly …

A simple mistake, a deliberate headline-grabber or a surprise-spoiling leak – we won’t know until next week whether details in GameSpot’s interactive E3 planner are the real deal. Head over to the guide and hover your cursor over the EA listing and you’ll see, amongst other games, listings for Mass …