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Article | 16/12/2009 Dragon's Lair coming to DSiWare next week

Dirk the Daring finally returns next week to do battle with the evil dragon Singe across both screens of the DSi.

Article | 12/12/2009 Harmonix lays off more than ten per cent of workforce

The Beatles: Rock Band developer Harmonix confirmed a 13 per cent workforce reduction yesterday, just in time for the holiday season. The 39 positions...

Article | 12/12/2009 Mega Man 10 announced for WiiWare

Early scans of next month's Nintendo Power magazine reveal that Capcom is developing Mega Man 10 with an eye towards cashing in on the 8-bit nostalgia...

Article | 12/12/2009 EA: 'Divine Edition' of Dante's Inferno is a PS3 exclusive

Visceral Games released a statement yesterday confirming the "Divine Edition" of upcoming blasphemous brawler Dante's Inferno will only be available o...

Article | 10/12/2009 Patent reveals new uses for upcoming PS3 motion controller

A recent patent application submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (dug up by GameSpot) reveals a number of potential applications for the ...

Article | 2/12/2009 No more new content for Rock Band Unplugged

Harmonix representatives announced this morning that the developer has ceased releasing downloadable content for Rock Band Unplugged in order to focus...

Article | 2/12/2009 UK's Royal Navy testing PSP as a study aid

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom recently began issuing Sony Playstation Portable gaming devices to marine warfare engineering techs studying for ...

Article | 1/12/2009 U.S. Military building PS3 supercomputer

The U.S. Air Force has submitted a procurement request for 2,200 new PS3 units to supplement the 336 that are already employed at the Air Force Resear...

Article | 20/11/2009 Activision to birth third Call of Duty studio -- CoD MMO on the way?

According to an L.A. Times article published yesterday, Activision Blizzard has opened a new development studio devoted to the Call of Duty franchise....

Article | 19/11/2009 US Federal government using PS3 to crack pedophile passwords

US Federal officials have put the PS3 to work breaking passwords on computer equipment confiscated from suspected child pornographers, according to a ...

Article | 18/11/2009 Games are most effective US Army recruitment tool

A political column in this morning's Washington Examiner claims video games like America's Army are the most effective recruitment tools of the U.S. A...

Article | 18/11/2009 Left 4 Dead goes 8-bit

Independent game developer Eric Ruth is coding a free PC game that envisions what Valve's popular zombie-killing franchise might have looked like on a...

Article | 13/11/2009 Nintendo to release its first 'mature rating' game for Wii

Nintendo announced a new game today at a retailer conference in Japan, <a href="http://ameblo.jp/sinobi/entry-10386813688.html">releasing</a> box art ...

Article | 11/11/2009 Activision donates $1 million to help U.S. veterans

Activision Blizzard will make a $1 million donation to unemployed military vets through their Call of Duty Endowment (CODE,) a charity foundation inte...

Article | 10/11/2009 EA acquires casual gaming pro Playfish for $300 million

EA formally announced the acquisition of social games developer Playfish today for an estimated $300 million, with another $100 million incentive prom...