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SCEA’s released a fair bit of screens for PlayStation Move.Get them after the break.After weeks and months of speculation, Sony finally named the controller last night at its off-site pre-GDC press conference last night.A whole slew of titles f...

Well. It wasn’t Gem, it wasn’t Arc and it sure as hell wasn’t “Kaz Hirai’s magic stick”.SCE WWS boss Shuhei Yoshida kicked down the door in San Fran last night and announced the PS3 Motion Controller is, in fact, P...

Sony has said in the past that some of the games already present in the PS3 catalog will get PS Move support.Will this include the God of War games? Only if it’s not a “hokey” thing to do, says design director Todd Papy.Speaking wit...

The God of War team is talking about DLC right now, or at least the possibility of it – but don’t expect to be seeing it next week, Spartans.Speaking with VG247 at the God of War III event tonight in San Francisco, design director Todd Pa...

The EU PS Blog has upped the European b-roll movie of the newly-announced PlayStation Move, as well as dropping a ton of Move game screens and lifestyle shots.As well as that, a couple of more titles have been announced for it, including stuff like T...

SCEA president Jack Tretton’s just confirmed in an interview with the PS Blog that over 20 first-party games are coming for PlayStation Move this fiscal year.He also announced 36 third-party firms are on board with the controller. Firms announc...

During its GDC 2010 keynote, Sony demoed a separate sub-controller that compliments its recently named Move motion wand.The publisher then rolled out a demo of SOCOM 4, which used Move to control the camera and the character while the sub-controller ...

Sony’s shown off the first PlayStation Move games in San Francisco tonight, including old favourites and new content.Beginning with a game called Sports Champions, a mode called Gladiator Duel was shown off. In it, the guy demoing the title fou...

Sony’s tonight announced it’ll be releasing a PlayStation Eye bundle along with the just-announced PlayStation Move for $100, when the motion controller launches in fall.Also announced was a hardware bundle that features a PS3 itself, alo...

Finally, after nearly ten months of waiting, Sony has announced a name for the PS3 Motion Controller in a GDC event tonight. And it is, as was rather blatantly leaked via a European trademark filing earlier today, PlayStation Move.SCEA has just annou...

Speaking at GDC earlier today, EA COO John Schappert said he was “disappointed” with Activision over the way its handling an Infinity Ward legal situation which has seen bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West fired for apparent “insub...

VG247 has it on cast iron authority that Sony will name it’s PlayStation 3 Motion Controller in San Francisco this evening.What is it? You’ll just have to wait and see. The event kicks off at 4.00pm PST.Sony’s streaming the event li...

The next Lara game, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, is to come at the bargain price of $15, according to developer Crystal Dynamics.The studio told Joystiq at GDC today that the game is, as many guessed, a PC, 360 and PS3 release.It’ll be...

Sony’s just confirmed it’s going to be streaming tonight’s GDC press conference on Ustream.Hit this for the page.We’ll be liveblogging the San Franciscan event, and G4 will also be streaming video.Sony is expected to focus on ...

Acti just confirmed a March 30 launch for Modern Warfare 2’s first DLC pack, a date teased last night.The Stimulus Pack will, as promised, release on Live first.Additionally, Silver Live members will be able to try out MW2 online play in a R...

Sony’s registered “PlayStation Move” in Europe, while sources tell us that “Arc” has been fully ditched as a potential name for PS3’s Motion Controller.The filing for the name, found by The Netwerk (via Joystiq), w...

Update: Steve Perlman, OnLive CEO, has just posted a load of detail on the service’s blog. You’ll find the whole thing below.Original: OnLive COO Mike McGarvey has told MCV that his cloud gaming service will launch in the US on June 17, w...

Sony Santa Monica has announced it has two new projects in pre-production at the studio: a week before its most recent project, God of War III, launches.John Hight, product development director at the studio, told MTV:“We’re jumping right...

A Japanese retailer is claiming that Sony is to drop PS3’s weight from its current 3.2kg to 3.0kg.The change will be made as the machine changes in model number from CECH-2000A to CECH-2100A, Andriasang reports.There’s no news as to why t...

A third DJ Hero DLC pack will hit XBL and PSN on March 25 Acti said today.The pack will feature Jay-Z and Eminem, and will cost 640 MSP or $7.99.You’ll get three mashups of six songs:“Shake That” by Eminem mixed with “Show Me ...

Sony’s just said it’s to launch Home 1.35 for PS3 tomorrow, describing it as including “some very significant enhancements”.Home 1.35 is to have faster load times and an enhanced log-in process, according to this PS Blog post....

PC gaming? Dead? We spit at you. The PCGA has gathered research showing software sales for the platform were up by 3 percent, bringing in a total revenue to $13.1 billion, in 2009.However, despite the increase, sales of boxed games are down by 20 per...

Activision handed out some screens for Transformers: The War for Cybertron at GDC yesterday, and you can check ‘em out below the break along with some more information on the game.Basically, you are seeing exactly what we got to see. Optimus an...

Sony’s GDC press conference is “happening,” and Steph’s, like, so there. Via the magic of the internet, therefore, so are you.What are we going to see? Unless we’re amazingly wrong, you’re going to see the PlayStat...

He’s red (or very seriously sunburnt), got weird blue hair and has a menacing smile.Say hello to Hakan: the final fighter to be revealed for Super Street Fighter IV.Capcom took the wraps off the character last night in the new Famitsu.You can f...

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has revealed that Final Fantasy XIII went to Xbox 360 because Microsoft “asked us” to develop a title in the series for the console.Speaking with Siliconera, he said the install base as it was at the time...

Codemasters has just formally unveiled F1 2010 for PS3, 360 and Games for Windows, along with a September release date.The game is the first HD Formula One game to appear since F1: Championship Edition for PS3 back in 2007.It’ll be built around...

Just in case you didn’t hear Cammie Dunaway clearly enough last month, NoA boss Reggie Fils-Aime’s told Forbes that a Wii successor is some way away. “When the software developer comes forward with an idea that can’t be execut...

Mafia II was shown to a couple of outlets out in San Francisco last night. The consensus seems to be that it pretty much kicked down the door and impressed.Get everything after the break.Producer for the title Denby Grace said the game’s overal...

Civilization V’s one of GDC’s biggest games this week, and a bunch of previews and impressions of Meier’s latest are now live following a round of showings in California yesterday.Steph’s seeing this today, so we should have s...

The latest episode of The Jace Hall Show includes over five seconds of gameplay footage from a top secret Warner FPS.The footage was shown right near the end of the episode, with a helicopter coming towards the player and crashing into what looks lik...

Square Enix has announced its shipped 5 million units of Final Fantasy XIII worldwide, with 3 million for the US and Europe alone.An additional 2 million units were shipped in Japan when the game launched in the country back in December last year.The...

Update: Ubisoft’s just told VG247 the UK date is June 4.Original Story: Ubisoft’s dated R.U.S.E. for a June 3 release.Considering the date is on a Thursday, we’re gonna guess this is the European date, but we’ll email Ubi abou...

EA’s released the first shots of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, announced last night for a June 8 release.Get them after the break.It comes as EA Sports told VG247 at GDC last night the game wouldn’t support Natal because of launch “timin...

Mafia II producer Denby Grace has revealed the 50’s-gangster title will last up to 15 hours.When addressing questions on whether or not the game could fit on one DVD, he said that “issues” did exist at one point but are non-existent...

Following the success of Heavy Rain, developer Quantic Dream has listed a couple of job positions for its next title, one of which possibly reveals online functionality in some form.The pages ask that those with experience in game engines and MMOs ap...

True Crime producer Jeff O’ Connell told VG247 at GDC last night that the team’s too concerned with finishing the product to consider DLC at the moment, but when you’ve got a game inspired by films such as The Departed and Eastern P...

United Front filled us in on True Crime’s reputation system at GDC last night – it’s pretty much just like the real-life one in Hong Kong, where the game takes place.In the game, you will run across characters with a number of icons...

When True Crime is released later this fall it’ll stick firmly to the real world – just action, kung-fu, cars and awesome. United Front showed us the game at GDC today: hit the links for general details, news on the games reputation syste...

EA Sports Active is to get a full sequel this autumn, the company said at GDC overnight.Active 2.0 (a working title) is going to be a truly cross-platform affair, releasing for Wii, PS3, iPod touch and iPhone.The title will deliver a “new suite...

EA Sports has told VG247 that Tiger Woods 11 won’t be supporting Natal thanks to launch “timing”.Speaking with us at an EA Sports GDC event this evening, a spokesperson told us that the reason the game would support the PS Motion Co...

Will Wright knows casual gaming. After all, we’re talking about the brain behind The Sims here. He was – in a sense – casual before casual was cool.So when Nintendo cast its net wide and started reeling in mothers, grandparents, and...

Gamespot’s just put live the first developer’s diary for the PlayStation Motion Controller.Get it after the break.The video shows Richard Marks and Anton Mikhailov of SCEA playing about with a couple of prototype demos, as well as stuff s...

According to a translation from GAF, Japanese website AV Watch are reporting Firmware 3.20 for PS3, which includes the option for 3D gaming, will go live on June 10.The report also mentions there will be re-releases of games that will support 3D. So ...

You’ve just lost your two main bosses, but you’ve also got probably the most antcipated DLC of all time.So what do you do? Show off a cryptic website and reveal the date for it.Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling just tweeted this:http://ww...

Eidos Montreal boss Stephanie D’Astous has said there will be a Deus Ex 3 “surprise” coming on Thursday.The exec tweeted just minutes ago:leaving tomorrow for GDC-SFO, i advise everyone to log-onto IGN thursday the 11th march at aro...

We’re being ignored, children. Kevin Butler just wants to play God of War III.And who can blame him for doing so in the new US TV ad for the game, as it’s received very high marks so far. Pretty great for a title that cost $44 million to ...

Interested in OnLive? Grab a clean pair: there’s “big news” incoming relating to the cloud service.The firm tweeted earlier:Keep an eye on Steve’s keynote address this Wednesday at GamesBeat@GDC. Big events call for big news&#...

Head of comms at SCEA, Patrick Seybold, has told VG247 US editor Stephany Nunneley that the PlayStation Motion Controller will be “promoted” at release with an “aggressive approach”.Speaking last week, before full details on t...

EA said today more Bad Company 2 offline time will be required tomorrow.The PC version suffered servers problems this morning due to “a routing issue outside of EA’s control”.The firm’s not going into specifics of when the ser...

Harmonix just confirmed that Rock Band 3 will release this holiday season.Said the firm on Rock Band’s Facebook page:“Harmonix is developing Rock Band 3 for worldwide release this holiday season! The game, which will be published by MTV G...

And we’re off. Sony just announced that 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures (dur), Universal and Warner Bros. are now all signed to delivery HD movies for the US PSN.“Securing high definition content from these studios is a...

EA Sports just dropped its Tiger Woods 11 press release, confirming the Ryder Cup and PS3 Motion Controller support for the upcoming game.The Motion Controller support will “give gamers an authentic interactive swing experience,” accordin...

BioWare just dropped a new free bit of DLC onto the Cerberus Network in the shape of the Arc Projector.The heavy weapon does this:The Arc Projector ionizes targets with a non-visible laser to ready them for a high-voltage electrical attack. As the li...

If you’re in the mood for a bit of offline JRPG action while you’re waiting for FFXIV later this year, you may as well grab the PS3 version of FFXIII. You’ll find some treats inside.MCV’s reporting that the PS3 version of FFXI...

EA just slapped another bit of DLC on Need for Speed Shift, this time in the form of an “exotic” pack due later this month.Are the following cars exotic? Apparently so.Alfa Romeo 8C CompetizioneBMW M1 ProcarGUMPERT apolloHonda NSXMcLaren ...

GDC’s getting under way as we type, and first out of the gate is a Battlestar Galactica MMO from German firm Bigpoint.The company also just said it’s to open a US office.Battlestar Galactica owner NBC Universal acquired 35 percent of Bigp...

EA’s announced a publishing deal with upstart 38 Studios to bring its first game, currently an RPG known as Project Mercury, to the market.The studio was founded by Baseball World Series MVP, Curt Schilling, with the game’s development be...

Blizzard’s confirmed to VG247 that Starcraft II will receive a day one patch when it releases in the first half of this year.Speaking with Patrick Garratt in an interview just published today, the game’s lead designer, Dustin Browder, sai...

It’s been revealed the latest PSN charts for February was topped by Marvel vs Capcom 2.The fighter beat off Hustle Kings to two, while Final Fantasy VIII came third, despite being the biggest new entry on the list.The top ten was rounded off by...

Dustin Browder, StarCraft II’s lead designer, wants to go home. He’s a tired bunny. He’s been working on a game that’s been in development since 2003 and finally, thankfully, the end is in sight: StarCraft II is gearing to lau...

The success of games will “benefit” the movie industry, according to the director of the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare series, Keith Arem.Speaking in an interview with GI, he said franchises such as Modern Warfare and Grand Theft Auto h...

Some first information on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has appeared from the new issue of OPM.As far as the story goes, it sees the Ghosts taking on an ultranationalist group that’s disposed the Russian president, 10-15 years after Advanced Warf...

Bodycount designer Stuart Black has revealed you may not have been playing the new IP from Codemasters were it not for one thing: Criterion’s canning of Black 2.The head of the newly-formed Codemasters Guildford revealed to Gamespot that the se...

Just in case you needed it, Square Enix has just sent out a reminder that the European launch event for Final Fantasy XIII takes place tonight at the Oxford Street HMV in London.The party will see producer Yoshinori Kitase and art director Isamu Kami...

Sega’s announced it’ll be releasing DLC for Alien vs Predator next week for PSN, Xbox Live and PC.The content is the same as that supplied with the Special Edition back at release last month.The DLC includes four multiplayer maps, with tw...

Is Valve’s announcement of Steam and its games coming to OSX not enough loving for you Mac fans out there? How about the possibility of DICE bringing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Appleward?When asked by UGDB on the subject, Battlefield producer K...

Microsoft just pitched a new Alan Wake trailer, showing off a ton of pretty misery, torch-play and angry farming equipment. Get it after the break.The Remedy definitely-not-a-horror-it’s-a-psychological-action-thriller was looking in awesome fo...

Executive Producer of Crackdown 2 James Connelly has revealed video replays will be added to the game as a future DLC release.Speaking with OXM, he said replays would be saved and even shared amongst people on Live.“We wanted to get that functi...

In just a couple of hours, GDC 2010 kicks off in full. We’re pumped, you’re pumped, San Fran’s pumped. These t-shirts prove it.Kotaku has up first shots of what’s happening as final preparations draw to a close.The site also h...

This year’s event hasn’t even gone into overdrive yet, but GDC 2011 has already been given dates.The event will revert back to its traditional Monday-Friday cycle, instead of this year’s Tuesday-Saturday timeline, and will take plac...

Capcom’s released an epic reel of Lost Planet 2 gameplay and cut-scenes, giving a pretty good reason why all trains should have mounted cannons.Why? Because they look awesome.There’s over four minutes of stuff in the video below, soaring ...

An IMDB listing for Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 may have revealed the inclusion of Robin in the game.A casting for the role has been made, with it to be voiced by Everybody Hates Chris actor Vincent Martella – who, ironically, voices Hope in Final ...

Blizzard’s told G4 that the company talks about bringing World of Warcraft to the console “all the time”, but “technical challenges” are standing in the way.WoW lead producer, J. Allen Brack, said:“In the case of W...

Codemasters just chucked over the announce press release and first shots of just-announced Stuart Black FPS Bodycount, saying the game will be “genre-defining”.?Our core focus for Bodycount is to deliver best-in-class gun play that places...

Valve’s confirmed on its Left 4 Dead blog that both games in the shooter series will both be cross-platform compatible between PC and Mac, and that both will feature cross-platform play.In addition, Mac users will be able to create their own ma...

Codemasters has formally taken the wraps of new first-person shooter Bodycount, coming from the publisher’s new Guildford studio and Stuart Black, saying the game will release for PS3 and 360 in the first quarter next year.Not much is known on ...

US PS3 stocks are having trouble meeting demand, SCEA comms boss Patrick Seybold has confirmed to VG247 US ed Stephany Nunneley, following SCE UK admitting a similar situation in February.“There is incredible pent up demand for PS3 right now an...

Nearly four years after its reveal at the Sony press conference back at E3 in 2006, Final Fantasy XIII releases today in the west for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 after a release late last year in Japan.The game’s gone through the ringers since i...

You may not know it, but you’ve been training for this moment for years. After all, you’re a gamer. If aliens existed and needed to be exterminated, you’d be on the 2 AM infomercial for the Alien Chopper. Let’s face it: you...

This looks to be a big week for Infinity Ward. In a good way, though! Unlike, you know, last week.The ever-reliable Robert Bowling broke the news via Twitter. “…annnd we JUST hit 25 MILLION unique players on Modern Warfare 2. Insanity! Al...

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR have both estimated that the only hardware to see a sales increase in February in the US was PS3, will all other consoles sliding back year-on-year.Here’s the lot, thanks to Edge.Wedbush / EEDAR ...

Will whoever’s “attacking” Ubisoft’s DRM servers give it a rest? The poor loves over there must be in a right state by now.Ubi’s just tweeted that its DRM servers are, yet again, “under attack”. Basically, th...

In case you were under any illusion that Microsoft’s E3 this year was going to be light on Natal, consider it shattered: you’re going to see more than your fair share.“We have very strong first and third-party developer support for ...

We didn’t see this coming. Valve’s just announced Steam for Mac.The company’s been teasing this for the past week.Both Steam and Valve’s games – including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the H...

God of War III cost a lot of bling-bling. $44 million, to be exact.Sony Studio Monica’s John Hight revealed the piece of info in a video interview with GiantBomb.“We are stamping discs now, so we’re effectively done. Just got a coup...

Ubi’s released the first gameplay footage of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. Hit the link.The game’s set between Sands of Time and Warrior Within, and it’s built on the Assassin’s Creed engine. It’s looking great,...

The PS3 fanboys: they’re pumped. The God of War III review embargo has just lifted. Has the Sony Santa Monica epic impressed the scoring massive? Find out after the break.Eurogamer – 9TheSixthAxis – 9GamePro – 4.5/5Strategy In...

Gfk-Chart Track’s announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has become the fastest selling title in the UK this year so far.Specific figures weren’t released by the firm, but the EA DICE shooter has outsold the original BC by 3:1.It becom...

2K’s announced a partnership with Playboy to bring centerfolds and front covers from the magazine’s past to Mafia II when it releases this year.Using “a unique in-game integration”, over 50 “vintage covers and centerfold...

SCEA comms boss Patrick Seybold, speaking ahead of GDC this week, has told VG247 US ed Stephany Nunneley that, while PS3 games hit their “stride” in 2009, this year is going to be the best yet.“We’re expecting 2010 to be one o...

Sega’s Takashi Iizuka has hinted that Episode II of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 could expand beyond the llittle blue man himself. Or not. Who knows?Speaking in the latest issue of Game Informer, Iizuka said: “Fans will be very pleased with the c...

Sony will press release a firm date and a list of partners for its PS3 Motion Controller tomorrow, a source has told VG247.The announcement is to be made at 5.00pm PST/1.00am GMT tomorrow, we were told today, ahead of a Sony press conference in San F...

Ubisoft’s said in a tweet that the DRM issues that’s affected titles like Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5 for PC were down to a “server attack” last night.Because of that, “limited service” was only a...

Steam’s now offering the open beta of Eugen RTS R.U.S.E for pre-load.The Valve service has confirmed the test’s availability in its news section.The open beta was announced last week by Ubisoft.The game itself is still due an exact date o...

Bethesda’s released the first direct-feed shots of Fallout: New Vegas.Hands up if clocking someone with a golf club screams “awesome”?The whole load of them is over at Joystiq.The Obsidian spin-off was recently given a fall release ...

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has instantly moved past Heavy Rain to become the new number one in this week’s UK charts.The EA DICE shooter saw off the Quantic Dream thriller, as well as Ubisoft’s Just Dance, Sega’s Alien vs Predator a...

It’s GDC week! And you know what that means? It means developers get lippy with their secrets. First up: Sony’s releasing something called “LBP2″ this year.Whether the LittleBigPlanet product’s disc-based or a download i...

A Nunchuk add-on is to make up PlayStation Arc, according to someone on GAF, with off-screen chatter collaborating the news.The forum poster said he had seen recent “pictures” of “Wand/Nunchuk”.The user, known as “ichini...