Nintendo denies claims that new handheld's store and browser would be held back until a later firmware update.
Nintendo has denied reports that owners its upcoming 3DS handheld would have to wait for its eStore download service and web browser, saying the features will be available at launch.
Last week Wired claimed the features would not be available on day one, but instead delivered by a firmware update to be released further down the line.
Gold members to get exclusive taste of upcoming sci-fi shooter’s multiplayer mode on Tuesday.
Xbox 360 owners will be treated to an exclusive demo of the multiplayer component of upcoming shooter Crysis 2, publisher EA has announced.
The demo, which is only available to Xbox Live Gold members, will be available to download tomorrow, January 25.
Tokyo brawler finally arrives in Europe on March 18, a year to the day after its Japanese bow.
Sega has confirmed that Yakuza 4 will be released in Europe on March 18, and the US three days earlier.
Doom, Quake designer moves into social gaming market after consulting on Facebook’s Ravenwood Fair.
Social entertainment firm RockYou has announced it is to fund and publish the first game from Loot Drop, John Romero’s social gaming studio.
Romero, co-founder of id Software and designer of seminal shooter Doom, made his first foray into social gaming last year, helping LOLapps with Facebook title Ravenwood Fair.
Take-Two confirms May release for multiplatform shooter after 13 years in development.
You are not dreaming, it is still 2011 and this is happening: 13 years after it was first announced, Duke Nukem Forever has a release date.
Publisher Take-Two has confirmed that the Gearbox-developed Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC shooter will finally hit store shelves on May 3 in the US, and May 6 in Europe.
Dutch website claims Sony will introduce PC-like unique code system to thwart PS3 pirates.
Sony will respond to the recent publication online of PlayStation 3’s root keys by shipping new games with a unique serial code.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops remains number one in the UK Top Sellers Buzz chart.
The first UK Top Sellers Buzz chart of 2011 is topped, yet again, by Activision's shooter, which amassed 30,285 mentions. Numbers two and three are also unchanged with Gran Turismo 5 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood standing their ground with 10,902 and 9543 mentions respectively.
Sonic creator working as executive director on Wii, 3DS “sky fantasy” action title.
Prope, Yuji Naka’s Japanese development studio, has announced Rodea The Sky Soldier for Wii and 3DS.
Asphalt, Rayman and two Tom Clancy titles available on launch day; four more during launch window.
Ubisoft has revealed release dates for the eight titles it has planned for the 3DS launch window, with four slated for release on launch day.
The publisher announced at Wednesday’s European 3DS launch event in Amsterdam that it would be releasing eight games during the system’s launch window, defined by Nintendo as running from launch day to the start of E3 on June 7.
Chris Donlan finds creativity blooming even in the darkest dungeon of Buzz Monkey’s latest.
Claims Zampella delayed Modern Warfare 2 map pack to avoid clash with Battlefield Bad Company 2.
Activision has claimed that former Infinity Ward studio head Vince Zampella helped EA by delaying the launch of a DLC map pack for Modern Warfare 2.
The Call Of Duty publisher has filed as evidence an internal EA email which apparently boasts that Zampella delayed the release of the Stimulus map pack for Modern Warfare 2 so as not to interfere with EA’s release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Says it never intended for Stacraft II modder to shut down development despite copyright infringement claim.
Blizzard has said it is happy for development on Starcraft II mod World Of Starcraft to continue, saying it never intended to shut it down.
We speak to the company founder who traded high-profile studio salaries for indie development.
Over half a year has passed since Radiangames released its first title, JoyJoy, on Xbox Live Indie Games (XBLIG), and founder Luke Schneider hasn’t yet turned a profit. But he’s really rather upbeat about it.
No change at the top as Treyarch shooter holds on at number one.
There’s no change at the top of the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark; Call Of Duty: Black Ops is still number one.
There’s little change elsewhere either, with usual suspects Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, FIFA 2011, Gran Turismo 5 and The Sims 3 all present and correct.
PS3 and iPhone hacker offered free handset by Microsoft representative “to build cool stuff”.
Microsoft has offered noted hacker GeoHot a free Windows Phone 7 handset.
Sources tell LA Times Sledgehammer helping Infinity Ward on singleplayer, Raven on online multiplayer.
Raven Software and Sledgehammer games are helping Infinity Ward with development of Modern Warfare 3, according to reports.
Eleven classic games revisited by their original developer as part of GDC’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
Organisers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2011 have announced that next month’s event will feature a series of retrospectives of classic games.
A total of 11 hour-long talks, dubbed Classic Game Postmortems, will be delivered by the developers of the games in question as part of GDC’s celebration of its 25th year.
UPDATE: David Braben says report is "inaccurate speculation"; confirms 17 redundancies.
The Outsider, a free-roaming political thriller being developed by Elite creator David Braben’s Frontier Games, has reportedly been cancelled.
Rock Paper Shotgun reports that the long-awaited game – which was on the cover of E165 in 2006 - was cancelled yesterday, leaving 17 staff out of work.
Modder incurs Blizzard’s wrath for making Starcraft MMO; League Of Legends dev pops up with job offer.
The modder behind World Of Starcraft – which used public modding tools to turn Blizzard’s Starcraft II into an MMOG – has been offered a job at Riotgames.
In a post on Pixelated Geek the modder, known online as Ryan, was offered a job with League Of Legends developer Riotgames.
Intel Capital among investors as social MMOG developer looks to create larger worlds.
Social gaming developer Kabam has raised $30m in funding for social MMOGs.
Inside Social Games reports that the Kingdoms Of Camelot developer’s funding comes from venture capitalists Redpoint Ventures, Intel Capital and returning investor Canaan Partners.
General manager David Yarnton cites rating systems and downloadable content as sticking points.
Nintendo has confirmed rumours that games for its upcoming 3DS handheld will be region locked.
Owner Disney Interactive drops shutters on Tron: Evolution developer.
Vancouver-based studio Propaganda Games has been closed by its parent company Disney Interactive.
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.