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Battling the gods. In the genre known colloquially as Diablo Clones, Titan Quest holds a special place for me, although oddly not so much for the game that was released, but more for...

Steve Jobs has finally embraced gaming as a key part of Apple's business. Nintendo and Sony should be seriously worried. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's wide...

And how Sony could have owned motion control six years ago. The location: Stanford University. Sony's R&D mastermind Dr Richard Marks is once again showcasing motion control technolo...

"The Japanese are stuck in a time warp." All Capcom games exist because Keiji Inafune said yes. As head of global research and development at the Japanese powerhouse, Inafune's the man responsible for ...

id Software's Tim Willits to demo RAGE every day. Hunted, Brink and Fallout playable. Eurogamer is delighted to announce that Bethesda Softworks will present id Software's RAGE and i...

Wager Matches, COD Points, bots. Vid inside. Treyarch has unveiled Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer including Wager Matches, which utilise a new COD Points system, Combat Training...

Digital Foundry talks in-depth with creator of the 60FPS "miracle" tech. On Saturday, Digital Foundry covered a SIGGRAPH 2010 presentation by LucasArts' Dmitry Andreev on the process...

Vana'diel or no deal. When Square (as then was) announced that the next game in its headline Final Fantasy franchise was going to be an online game, it wasn't a popular decision. Blu...

A frame-rate upscaler that really works? Digital Foundry investigates. At the recent SIGGRAPH 2010, LucasArts coder Dmitry Andreev showed off a quite remarkable tech demo based on wo...

Videogames are no longer a soft target for conservative polemic. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editori...

Nick Burton on how Rare got involved with Kinect and why you should give it a try. Uninterested? Sceptical? Cynical? Outright angry? It's fair that Rare, the creator of Kinect launch game Kinect Sports...

Then gave up and made Left 4 Dead. Gabe Newell has revealed that Valve was toying around with a "flying fairy game" before it began work on Left 4 Dead. ...

What is it good for? Kabul, Afghanistan. A young man lies bleeding in the sand. A makeshift bomb has exploded beneath him. The blast has torn the flesh from his legs. Shrapnel has ca...

Move-compatible air-traffic control 'em-up. Read more...

"3D is an early adopter market." Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior vice president Ray Maguire opened the Edinburgh Interactive Festival yesterday with a presentation on 3D gaming. His message: ...

On Move, Kinect and 3D. Now Blizzard behemoth StarCraft 2 has re-written the real-time strategy sales rule book it's hard to see how Ubisoft's R.U.S.E., due out next month, will compete.Senior producer...

Brink's director on delays, ambition and the pressure of game development. Rage drew the biggest crowd at QuakeCon 2010 - and it wrote the biggest headlines while it was at it. Simultaneous demonstrati...

Real good time world. My poor immortal soul. The erosion began in 1997, when I was only 19 years old. Which seems... weird actually. The GTA games are only 13 years old? Surely the o...

How PlayStation 3's security has been compromised and what it means. It's real. Almost four years after its launch, the PlayStation 3's much vaunted security has finally been complet...

The collapse of Realtime Worlds will impact UK development for years to come. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustr...

Science and industry. A few weeks before the launch of Fable II, I had a chance to speak to two of the key artists on the team about their vision for the project and how they'd gone about creating the ...

Moogles included. Read more...

"3D is an option. It's not a mandate." Sony's gamescom media briefing was different. Low key and relaxed (although not for those forced to stand), it saw SCEE president Andrew House give the gaming wor...

"We'll sell more consoles this year than we did last." Earlier this week Microsoft announced that Xbox 360's Kinect control system would launch in Europe on 10th November. We already knew that it would...

Dawn of War III, UFC 3, Guillermo del Toro and more. Danny Bilson doesn't do interviews like other high ranking videogame executives. The THQ core games boss is happy to talk frankly about not only ann...

On the new game, the one after that, and ladders. Before Eurogamer sits down with Todd Howard at QuakeCon to bully him into talking about his new game, we catch his panel with Tim Willits from id Softw...

Sacks more like it. There will a beta test for LittleBigPlanet 2 "soon", according to the official community website. You are "all" in wit...

You say bugs. I say gaming jazz. Soldner never, ever disappoints. There are many games that you can rely on for offering you a fun time. But there is none other (that I've encountere...

Microsoft says "yes". Digital Foundry investigates. While Sony and the PlayStation 3 are doing most the pioneering work in establishing stereoscopic 3D gaming, Microsoft's public app...

The inevitable showdown between Facebook and Google looms - and games may well be the battlefield. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newslet...

"It has never been our goal to transform Deus Ex into a shooter." The time for CGI is over. With the next instalment in the Deus Ex series nearer to its "early 2011" release, the time for gameplay has ...

To Infinite and beyond. It's a sultry August night in New York and Ken Levine, president and creative director of Irrational Games, writer and designer of Thief and System Shock 2, creator of BioShock,...

"We're trying to make a simulation here. We can't dumb it down." Another year, another Football Manager game. But this time developer Sports Interactive has chucked in dynamic league reputation, the mo...

Game creators tell us theirs. We all love to make wishes. "I wish for a million quid." "I wish for world peace." "I wish for this kid to stop screaming down my headset while I'm play...

"This is the most ambitious online world being developed in the industry." ArenaNet is confident. Confident enough to proclaim it's the best MMO developer around and its upcoming game Guild Wars 2 is t...

"Alan Wake is a bit of a dick... And yes, that is definitely intentional." Five years of development, 7/10, nearly a thousand comments, disappointing sales and, last week, the release of the add-on epi...

Treasure chess. I honestly didn't know it was going to be brilliant. Visiting my local Retro Games Emporium, I was stuffing boxes of N64, ...

The strengths. The weaknesses. The facts. Digital Foundry investigates. As we move closer to Kinect's November release date, games developers are talking in more detail - on and off ...

Social and casual gaming are one facet of wider change as people embrace games in new ways. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, th...

What made a throwaway party game on Wii a Modern Warfare-beater? A meeting room in the belly of a Parisian office block: Ubisoft producer Florian Granger stands to his feet to addres...

"Just look at the music industry. Most music is utter, utter trash." Ninja Theory's first game, Heavenly Sword, made headlines for a few reasons: it was PS3 exclusive, looked good, starred latex-lips A...

BioWare Mythic on Warhammer, Real ID and the future. Last month Mythic Entertainment quietly renamed itself as BioWare Mythic, and emerged as one of four BioWare studios currently hard at work making v...

Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka on pleasing the hardcore with Sonic Colours. With upcoming, downloadable, side-scrolling platformer Sonic 4, SEGA is taking the speedy blue hedgehog back to his Mega Drive r...

Death becomes her. Why Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation? Tomb Raider I is loved with nostalgia, Tomb Raider II is the best in the first run of the series, Tomb Raider VI (The Ange...

Digital Foundry visits the tech leads in Guildford for the inside story. The circle is now complete. Just over a year ago, Digital Foundry kicked off its extensive range of tech inte...

Disney's expensive social gaming acquisition speaks of a company desperate not to be left behind. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newslett...

Bungie talks Activision, Halo 4 and more. It's been an interesting year for Halo creator Bungie. In April the US studio signed a mammoth 10-year publishing deal with Activision for t...

CEO on MechScape, RuneScape, Stellar Dawn, rivals. Jagex employs over 350 people and claims not only to be the UK's biggest developer and publisher, but to be second only to World of...

"We're privileged to have players that care." Last night, outside GAME's flagship store on Oxford Street, London, hundreds of PC gamers queued to buy Blizzard's real-time strategy sequel StarCraft II. ...

A links to the past. Golf has never been my sport. I tried it once. You have to hit the ball really hard. It just felt wrong. I couldn't bring myself to hit anything that solid such ...

"Let other developers be scared of me." Warren Spector is one of the greats. He had a hand in the Wing Commander series, created cyberpunk role-playing shooters Deus Ex and System Sh...

Sony tech demos reveal rich potential for motion control gaming. During E3 2010, Digital Foundry had the chance to sit down and talk in-depth with Dr Richard Marks, one of the creati...

Kinect's pricing speaks of a company torn between market expansion and monetisation. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the Games...

"If I'm not careful I could break into tears." After arriving 10 minutes late for his Develop Conference keynote, Peter Molyneux took another 10 minutes to plug an Xbox 360 running t...

Is EA's controversial bonus DLC worth it when you have to pay? It's one of the boldest steps so far in the evolution of downloadable content, as gaming edges closer to a purely digit...

On money, Kinect, and Milo & Kate. Microsoft's just announced that Kinect will cost £129.99 / €149.99 and come bundled with launch title Kinect Adventures. ...

While game developers worry about next week's deadline, are academics building gaming's long-term future? Any discussion about the crossover between academia and the videogames busin...

1080p best suited for Blu-Ray movies. Interesting reports from Develop last week say that Sony is mandating 720p for all 3D titles, even though Blu-ray 3D movies will all use the ful...

Putting the 'war' in freeware. I am the sort of gamer that publishers loathe. I never pre-order, rarely buy a new game until it has at least halved in price, and wouldn't touch a pay...

Tales of derring-do. DuckTales, oo-oo!Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales, oo-oo! D-d-d-danger, watch behind you! There's a stranger out to find you! What to do? Just grab onto some DuckTales,...

Questions about how to entice gamers to use cloud gaming remain unanswered. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry....

Sex, platforming and an exclusive new trailer for Guardian of Light. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be available to download from Xbox Live Arcade on 18th August and from the PlayStation Sto...

How the Eurogamer readers' EVE Corp turned bad. Lollipops for Rancors is the Eurogamer readers' Corporation in EVE Online. This is the story of how a relative safe, "carebear" Corp c...

On Dragon Age 2, Star Wars and DS MMOs. Yesterday, BioWare co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk delivered a keynote presentation to the Develop Conference in Brighton entitled Creative Game Development: How we ...

On Psychonauts, motion control and more. Tomorrow, Double Fine Productions CEO Tim Schafer will deliver a keynote presentation to the Develop Conference in Brighton. He's set to dis...

Plus Guerrilla, Media Molecule, Evolution live sessions. Eurogamer is thrilled to announce that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is bringing all of its hottest PlayStation 3 games ...

Why Call of Duty will end up in your browser window. Louis Castle's been around the block. The American videogame designer co-founded Westwood Studios, which, as all real-time strategy fans know, creat...

Look behind you etc. Guybrush Threepwood does not have an American accent. He just doesn't. He has a cool British accent. Case closed. The more LucasArts attempt to cut and paste the...

At stake: the fundamentals of gaming as we know it. OnLive. Hands-on. Away from controlled conditions, in the public domain, out of beta, and no longer covered by non-disclosure agre...

Blizzard's Real ID may be a misstep, but at least it's thinking about community, when many rivals aren't. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly ...

Level-5's got more to offer than Layton. Level-5, the studio behind the Professor Layton series, has confirmed that some of its other titles will soon be heading West. ...

Second project "downscaled". Scottish developer Realtime Worlds has announced it will restructure following the release of MMO APB. Staff ...

Ron Gilbert on 3D, Monkey Island and what's next. If you love adventure games, you love Ron Gilbert. Some of LucasArts' classic late eighties and early nineties games owe much of the...

Realtime Worlds' Dave Jones hits back. APB, the action MMO from Dundee-based developer Realtime Worlds, launched in the UK on Friday. Great things were expected, not least because of...

Before the Bulletstorm. A chap called Daniel Garner accidentally drives into a truck on his wife's birthday and they both die. For a game that's heavy on spearing zombies to walls th...

The post-E3 war of words over 3D glasses reveals the true weakness of Sony's position. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the Gam...

E3 Killzone demo and 3D launch titles put through their paces. January's CES may have been the breakout event for 3DTV technology, but E3 was a similarly impressive showcase for the ...

Doctor in the house. Bonnie and Clyde. Morecambe and Wise. Zeschuk and Muzyka. Only two of them sound like words made up by someone trying to cheat at Scrabble, but all of them are known for being high...

The attack warrants a second look. Football! Eh? Don't we all love football! The way they kick it with their feet, the lovely round shape of the ball, the haircuts. It's a game of at...

Agency resupply point. Three years on from its release and Realtime Worlds' Crackdown still commands an incredible level of respect from committed Xbox 360 gamers, and we count ourse...

The Budget was a bitter pill to swallow, but at least there's a sugar coating. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndust...

Nintendo's Yoshio Sakamoto and Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi. For years, Yoshio Sakamoto has been the darker, edgier twin to Shigeru Miyamoto - a designer who revels in anarchy, with the WarioWare series...

"I am woman." For some, the name Peter Moore will always be synonymous with the Dreamcast. For others, he will be best remembered as the corporate vice president of Microsoft's Inter...

Game of the Show, Best Tech, Best Publisher, more. It began, as ever, with a leak. With just hours to go until Microsoft's absurdly lavish and conceptually loopy launch event for Project Natal, suddenl...

Laughs or howls? I'm trying to think of more hoary old subjects to discuss than comedy in games. Let me see. How about DRM? I could be trying to talk to you about digital restriction...

E3 had plenty of core games and casual games - but where are the titles to span that gap? Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the...

Digital Foundry vs. Dr Richard Marks. With Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo 3DS dominating the E3 headlines, it is perhaps too easy to overlook the strong showing of PlayStation Move at...

Tech talk and brand new demo analysis. Thank Nintendo for this year's slice of E3 wonder. Last year Microsoft blew minds with the first reveal of Project Natal, but "the big N" appea...

Digital Foundry on latency, CPU overheads and how it all works. It's the day after the night before, and a chance to reflect on our hands-on playtest of the new Microsoft Kinect for ...

We meet the men tearing WOW to pieces: world guru Alex Afrasiabi and systems legend Greg Street. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is a uniquely ambitious expansion to an MMO, or to any kind of game, for th...

Ghost of the machine. You've read articles in which men of a certain age get misty-eyed about Deus Ex before. Throw an unwanted packet of soya food into the internet, and the first t...

Alex Evans on building a platform for games. In Digital Foundry's last Saturday feature before the onslaught of E3, we talk to one of Media Molecule's tech masterminds, Alex Evans, a...

The Wii offered a chance to innovate without taking huge risks, but consumers weren't interested. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newslett...

Tomonobu Itagaki introduces us to Valhalla Studios' first game. THQ has announced that it has signed up Tomonobu Itagaki's new outfit Valhalla Studios to partner on a brand new action game for PlayStat...

Revolutionary guard. It may not be out until early 2011, but Deus Ex: Human Revolution already has a fight on its hands in convincing fans of the series that it's worthy of the name. Developed by a dif...

Fact after fact straight from the cyber-horse's augmented mouth. Eurogamer was given unparalleled access to Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It was one of the most open and interesting days of our young live...

RZA reckons new film will "bring back bong". Jeri Ryan, one of the stars of a Mortal Kombat movie clip doing the rounds on the internet, has revealed more about its origins. ...

Science friction. Fantastic, isn't it? Doesn't get the credit it deserves. What a classic. My space station, I mean. Since I expanded it's...

Emerging platforms aren't just new ways to make money - they're also changing the way games are developed. Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly...