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Shogun 2: Total War Announced by Sega; Due for 2011 Release

Shogun 2: Total War Announced by Sega; Due for 2011 Release

Sega announces sequel to the RTS classic, Shogun: Total War.

E3 2010 Update – Valve Special Event & Bethesda Line Up Revealed

E3 2010 Update – Valve Special Event & Bethesda Line Up Revealed

The biggest gaming convention of the year known as E3 is almost here, which means more info about the event will be leaking its way to the internet.  We will keep you posted on all that here on Gamin... Read More

Apple takes the No. 1 spot as the biggest technology company in the world

Apple takes the No. 1 spot as the biggest technology company in the world

After years of Microsoft being the biggest technology company in the world, their spot has finally been taken, by Apple. Apple became No.1 after Microsoft's had $219bn, while apple came on top with... Read More

‘Virgin Gaming’, Richard Branson’s newest gaming venture

‘Virgin Gaming’, Richard Branson’s newest gaming venture

"Virgin Gaming" is the official name for Richard Branson's new venture, after it was revealed last week that Branson will personally unveil the company's surprise return to the gaming industry. "Vi... Read More

Developers of Ratchet & Clank turning multiplatform

Developers of Ratchet & Clank turning multiplatform

Insomniac Games, the developers behind PS3 exclusives such as Ratchet & Clank and Resistance are making their next game for both the PS3 and Xbox 360. Insomniac made it clear it was not the... Read More

Xbox founding fathers leave Microsoft

Xbox founding fathers leave Microsoft

J Allard and Robbie Bach are leaving their posts as creators of the Xbox and head of Microsoft entertainment respectively, after 41 collective years of faithful service. Microsoft executive All... Read More

2.7 million gamers clock in for Halo Reach beta

2.7 million gamers clock in for Halo Reach beta

Over 2.7 million gamers collectively clocked in to the 18 day long Halo Reach beta. Logging over 16 million hours and achieving a staggering 1.1 billion kills (coming in at 407 kills per person... Read More

Portal downloaded for free 1.5 million times

Portal downloaded for free 1.5 million times

Since Portal went on Steam for free, it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times. Valve didn't provide a breakdown of how many downloads were of the PC version versus the Mac version. Portal... Read More

Microsoft wants the audience to experience Natal at TGS

Microsoft wants the audience to experience Natal at TGS

Microsoft has said that they want to let an audience experience Natal for themselves at this year's Tokyo Game Show. In an interview with Nikkei BP, Japanese Xbox head Takashi Sensui hinted that N... Read More

Red Dead Redemption cost $100 million

Red Dead Redemption cost $100 million

The Daily Mail has reported that Rockstar's new open world western cost $100 million to develop. Red Dead Redemption released on Tuesday in the US, and hits shelves on Friday in Britain. Read th... Read More

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier pushed back into 2011

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier pushed back into 2011

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will not be hitting the stores by Holiday. In the words of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, they do not want to enter the “very competitive environment” of this year's Ho... Read More

Final Fantasy XIII sells 5 million units

Final Fantasy XIII sells 5 million units

The RPG that went on sale in Japan just before Holiday '09, and then earlier this year in Europe and the US, has sold more than 5 million units. At the end of Square Enix's fiscal year ending 31 M... Read More

MUBI- coming to a PS3 near you

MUBI- coming to a PS3 near you

There are some exciting developments on the Playstation 3 front which may turn it into even more of a fantastic multimedia player. MUBI is a new application coming 'soon' to the PS3 which will allo... Read More

Capcom cutting western developers loose

Capcom cutting western developers loose

Capcom head Haruhiro Tsujimota has said that the company will not be collaborating with western developers on upcomign IP's. Speaking with the Financial Times, Tsujimota said that Capcom will b... Read More

PixelJunk Shooter 2 will be a ‘proper sequel’

PixelJunk Shooter 2 will be a ‘proper sequel’

The game's producer has reassured fans amid fears that a sequel to the admirable PixelJunk Shooter could turn out to be nothing more than a lukewarm redressing of the original. Speaking to TheS... Read More

Dedicated servers for Call of Duty: Black Ops

Dedicated servers for Call of Duty: Black Ops

The studio head at Treyarch, Mark Lamia, has said that Call of Duty: Black Ops will contain dedicated servers. Speaking to PC Gamer, Lamia expressed his huge support for dedicated servers, and rath... Read More

Playstation 3 owners to get awesome Lost Planet 2 exclusive content

Playstation 3 owners to get awesome Lost Planet 2 exclusive content

A recent post on the Playstation Blog shows us that there's a lot of cool content in store for PS3 owners... Check it out below. "Hi Everyone, It’s Rich from Capcom here with some exciting ... Read More

Steam is now available for the Mac

Steam is now available for the Mac

Steam for the Mac is now available for immediate download at www.steamgames.com. Each Wednesday a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality will be released. This week's tit... Read More

No Dead Space 2 this year

No Dead Space 2 this year

According to EA's fiscal dossier, Dead Space 2 will not be released this year. The document instead has the Viseral title due for a Q4 fiscal 2011 release, which runs from January 2011 to March 20... Read More

USA spends $25bn every year on video games

USA spends $25bn every year on video games

According to a report released by market researcher Newzoo, US citizens spend over $25 billion every year on the video games industry. That summary includes all online transactions, retail game... Read More