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PS3 outsells 360 by 28% last year

PS3 outsells 360 by 28% last year

In the last 12 months, the Playstation 3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 by over a quarter. Microsoft reported last week that total console sales were at 10.3 million in the last financial year, w... Read More

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Producer Quits LucasArts

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Producer Quits LucasArts

 Haden Blackman, the mastermind behind the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games, has formally announced his resignation from LucasArts, a statement that has since been corraborated by the company. ... Read More

BioWare: Our Games Should Sell 10 Million Units

BioWare: Our Games Should Sell 10 Million Units

Bioware should reallby be quite happy these days. The developer, with its heritage of producing veritable titles such as Balidur's Gate and Knights of the Old Republic, has been producing one hit afte... Read More

PS3 Lifetime Sales Reach 38.1 Million

PS3 Lifetime Sales Reach 38.1 Million

As per Sony's financial figures revealed for the first financial quarter of 2010 which ended June 31st, the PS3 has now sold 38.1 million units, selling 2.4 million units in Q1 2010. The PS3 now 11... Read More

3DS Price and Release Date to be Revealed in September

3DS Price and Release Date to be Revealed in September

The release date and the price of Nintendo's upcoming, highly anticipated and hyped handheld, the 3DS, will be revealed in Japan on the 29th of September. Nintendo pointed this out to Bloomberg Japan.... Read More

Irrational games takes over mysterious site domain

Irrational games takes over mysterious site domain

A new project by Irrational Games codenamed Icarus has taken up territory under a site domain. The site http://whatisicarus.com/ has been registered by TakeTwo. You will notice that the site... Read More

Starcraft 2: Hearts of the Swarm to be ‘as Epic as Wings of Liberty’

Starcraft 2: Hearts of the Swarm to be ‘as Epic as Wings of Liberty’

Although the casual Starcraft gamer may not know it, Blizzard is going to release the entire Starcraft 2 experience in three stages. The base game, Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, released earlier yest... Read More

Sony licensing Playstation logo for non-gaming products

Sony licensing Playstation logo for non-gaming products

Sony ahave announced that they will be beginning a program where they will license the PS logo for non-gaming products. In a move called the "PlayStation Logo Licensing Program", the project wi... Read More

On PS3 3D, Valve Says ‘We Will Wait for Portal 3’

On PS3 3D, Valve Says ‘We Will Wait for Portal 3’

Ruling out 3D from their upcoming title, Portal 2, which was surprisingly announced on the PS3 as well, on Sony's home console, they said that the new tech will "have to wait for Portal 3" until is ca... Read More

RUSE officially dated

RUSE officially dated

Ubisoft have been constantly pushing back the release date for RUSE, their new RTS, but it has finally been given an official release. The delay from June until what we now know to be Spetember... Read More

Capcom revitalising struggling Resident Evil

Capcom revitalising struggling Resident Evil

Capcom is hoping to boost sales from the Resident Evil name by releasing more games. Nikkei online reports that the move comes as part of an initiative by all developers to reduce development t... Read More

3DTV SDK released for consoles

3DTV SDK released for consoles

A new 3D TV SDK has been released in France for high end consoles. The Trioviz for Games SDK allows 3D viewing on traditional 2D displays, and full 1080p support. French outfit Darkworks has... Read More

EA BioWare not involved in Darkspore

EA BioWare not involved in Darkspore

EA have put to bed rumors that partner company BioWare are collaborating with Maxis for its latest title, Darkspore. According to EA, speaking to GamePro, a writer who once worked on Mass Effec... Read More

Nintendo 3DS Will Have Higher Game Prices Than the DS, According to Pachter

Nintendo 3DS Will Have Higher Game Prices Than the DS, According to Pachter

Industry analyst Michael Pachter says Nintendo's upcoming handheld, the 3DS- which will allow players to play three-dimensional games without the need of 3D galsses- will have higher game prices than ... Read More

Naughty Dog Hiring Game Designer for ‘Fun Third-Person Action Gameplay’

Naughty Dog Hiring Game Designer for ‘Fun Third-Person Action Gameplay’

According to a job ad posted on Naughty Dog's website, they're looking for a new game designer to design "fun third-person action gameplay and levels." Naughty Dog says this new game designer will... Read More

Starcraft II EU servers go live

Starcraft II EU servers go live

As I write this, the Starcraft II servers are being fired up in anticipation of the launch of the RTS, which happens in one hour. The Battle.net servers are prepared to go live at 11pm GMT, in ... Read More

BioWare Mythic will ‘never’ use RealID

BioWare Mythic will ‘never’ use RealID

Warhammer Online developer BioWare Mythic has stated that it will 'never' force it's gamers to use their real names on online forums. Last week, Blizzard performed an abrupt U-turn on their pre... Read More

Street Fighter X Tekken is Competition, Not Collaboration, Say Namco and Capcom

Street Fighter X Tekken is Competition, Not Collaboration, Say Namco and Capcom

Excited at the fact that Namco and Capcom are apparently putting aside their differences, born out of the traditional rivalry between the Street Fighter and Tekken series, to collaborate on two crosso... Read More

Wall Street Journal apologises for Starcraft blunder

Wall Street Journal apologises for Starcraft blunder

The WSJ has apologised after reporting an incorrect figure for the development costs of Starcraft II. It's original story reported that Starcraft II cost $100 million to create- but this was la... Read More

Microsoft scrapping cross-platform gaming?

Microsoft scrapping cross-platform gaming?

Many months ago, Microsoft had an idea to begin a project of cross platform gaming. Windows Live and Xbox Live players together, with games such as Gears of War available for both platforms. But what ... Read More