Media Molecule details changes required for some original user-created levels to function properly.
Developer Media Molecule has issued a detailed explanation on LittleBigPlanet 2’s backwards compatibility with the original game.
Spot Pass system enables automatic delivery of 3D video; prospect of 3D movie trailers interests Hollywood.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes that Hollywood interest in 3DS’s ability to display 3D video will be a key factor of the device’s potential success.
We speak to two of the men behind the arcade version of Codemasters' Grid to find out what's changed.
Publisher to assume full control over firm it has held a 54 per cent stake in since 2005 on 1 April.
Japanese publisher Konami has announced it is to take over Hudson at the start of the next financial year.
Andriasang reports that Konami, which with a 54 per cent stake has been Hudson’s parent company since 2005, will assume full control of the Bomberman developer on April 1.
Weighty dashboard update prevents Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, Halo: Reach pirates playing online.
The Xbox 360 dashboard update issued yesterday by Microsoft appears to have contained anti-piracy measures.
“More than 30” games to be released between launch day and the start of E3 on June 7.
Nintendo has announced the list of 3DS games that will ship during the handheld's launch window.
At the system’s European launch event in Amsterdam it was announced that 25 games would be available between the system’s launch on March 25 and the beginning of the E3 expo on June 7.
But firm declines to set price at launch event in Amsterdam; $249.99 in North America on March 27.
Nintendo has confirmed a European release date for its upcoming 3DS handheld at its dedicated launch event in Amsterdam.
The glasses-free 3D handheld will be on European shelves on 25 March, but at the end of the much-hyped launch event Nintendo said it was not setting a price for the console. Instead it has given a purchase price to retailers, who have been given the freedom to set their own price.
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One code to rule them all. Streetpass, video partners detailed within.
Nintendo’s widely loathed friend code system appears to be largely a thing of the past, with the firm announcing that the upcoming 3DS will only use one friend code across all games.
The news comes from the 3DS launch event in Amsterdam, which is in progress as we type. The DS and Wii used a different code for every online-enabled game, forcing players to exchange and input lengthy strings of text in order to commune online.
Activision unable to find a buyer for Blur developer; up to 200 staff affected.
Publisher Activision has recommended that Liverpool studio Bizarre Creations be closed.
Develop reports that after a 90-day consultation period Activision has said it has been unable to find a buyer for the studio and as such has recommended it be wound up. A reported 200 staff are facing unemployment as a result.
Facebook gaming firm launches website offering virtual currency for in-game item purchases.
Social gaming giant Zynga has launched a reward programme, RewardVille, that gives players free in-game items.
While Zynga has yet to make an official announcement about the scheme, a website has now gone live inviting users to sign in with their Zynga login details.
UPDATE: App was pulled for violation of the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement.
Android app Kongregate Arcade has been pulled from the Android Market by Google, just hours after it launched.
The reason for the removal of the free app, which offers Android users over 300 Flash games also available on the Kongregate website, is unknown.
Johnny Chung Lee leaves Microsoft after two and a half years; joins Google as “rapid evaluator”.
A core member of Microsoft’s Kinect development team has left the firm and taken up a position with search giant Google.
Nine of top ten all-time paid apps are games; Doodle Jump top, Tap Tap Revenge listed three times.
As the App Store approaches the ten billion download mark, Apple has released charts showing the most downloaded apps since the service began in 2008.
14 games that characterise the state of UK arcades today.
Q Entertainment partners with UserJoy Technology to turn its 360 hack-and-slasher into an MMOG.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Q Entertainment has announced that it is to turn Ninety-Nine Nights into an MMOG.
The original Ninety-Nine Nights, a collaboration between Q Entertainment and Korean developer Phantagram, was released for Xbox 360 in 2006, and Q released a sequel last year.
EA-owned social gaming firm continues rapid growth since its 2007 inception.
Social gaming developer Playfish has announced that 55 million people worldwide play its games every month.
In a raft of statistics posted on its website the firm also reveals over 340 million games have been installed and played around the world, and that its microtransactions business is now topping 90 million transactions each day.
Seven million shows requested by PS3 users in December, up 31 per cent on previous month.
PlayStation 3 users watched a record seven million BBC programmes on the iPlayer catchup service in December, an increase of 31 per cent on the previous month.
Square Enix announces sequel to multiplatform 2010 RPG; Roman numeral purists unimpressed.
Square Enix has officially announced it is developing a sequel to Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 promises a brand-new story which follows on from that of its predecessor, as well as an enhanced battle system. The official announcement follows Square Enix’s registration last week of a domain name which suggested the game was in production.
3DS and Donkey Kong Country Returns talks also announced ahead of February development shindig.
Organisers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2011 have announced that Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski will speak at next month’s event.
Developer says latest influx of cheaters is due to PS3 hacking and cannot fix it until Sony fixes system security.
Infinity Ward has conceded it is powerless to stop the recent spate of hacks that have plagued the PlayStation 3 version of its 2009 smash Modern Warfare 2.
The recent breach of PS3 security – which causes the PS3 to read unsigned code as legitimate PS3 software – has led to the game’s online component being overrun with cheaters.
Sixteen MPs meet industry representatives and play games at inaugural House of Commons event.
Game consumer lobby group Gamers’ Voice has hailed last week’s Parliamentary Games Day “a real success”.
Sixteen politicians from all three main UK political parties attended the event at the House of Commons, playing a selection of games in a bid to engender positive sentiment for the game industry in parliament.
Free trade and wilderness abandoned in 2007 to prevent cheating; 91 per cent vote for February return.
1.2 million RuneScape players voted in a referendum asking if they wanted free trade and the Wilderness area restored to the game.
Developer Jagex says that 91 per cent of respondents voted in favour of free trade and the Wilderness returning. It originally removed them from the browser-based MMOG in 2007 to combat bottling, gold farming and item scamming.
To be released in Russia and CIS territories under licence from Codemasters; Western release unconfirmed.
Little-known Russian developer GFI has announced it is to release Cannon Fodder 3, an unexpected sequel to the much-loved 90s war sim.
The developer says it is making the title for PC and Xbox 360 under licence from IP rights holder Codemasters. It promises “classic isometric environments in full 3D, weather effects, change of time, destructible environment, physical water and a lot more.”
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Developed by the GamesRadar US team, the app contains more than 60,000 different cheats, guides and FAQs for more than 8,600 games, from PlayStation-era classics to recent smashes like Call Of Duty: Black Ops.
MMOG operator promises improved security, denies hacker’s claims of poor employee working conditions.
Frogster, the German operator of PC MMOG Runes Of Magic, has said it has increased security on its servers in the wake of the game’s databases being hacked by a disgruntled user.