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Id and Epic Go Head To Head Over Games For Windows

FPS developers Id Software and Epic have locked horns over the Games for Windows branding system introduced by Microsoft. Epic have refused to support the system, meaning that players of Unreal Tournament III on the 360 will not be playing against players of the PC version, whereas the possibility still exists for PC/PS3 cross-compatibility. Id [...]

Voting Opens In The Golden Joystick Awards 2007

Celebrating 25 years of gaming history, The Golden Joystick Awards are the UK’s biggest games award show. The longlists (Any game released between July 31st 2006 and August 1st 2007) for the awards have been unveiled at www.goldenjoystick.com and voting has now begun.

ESRB Battens Hatches For Storm Of User Created Content

With user-created content, such as maps, models and mods, coming to the PS3 and 360 with Unreal Tournament III, the ESRB’s Online Rating Notice; “Game Experience May Change During Online Play” is going to have its work cut out. Knowing how the press and ill-informed politicians over-react at the slightest hint of breasts, foul language [...]

EA No Longer King Of The Hill

Activision has taken the top spot as the worlds biggest third-party video game publisher. EA has been top dog in video game publishing since time immemorial, making the most of licenses like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings along with franchises such as The Sims. Activision’s success can be put down to the popularity [...]

Sony Would Drop UK PS3 Price, But It Doesn’t Want To Annoy People

SCEE president, David Reeves, speaking to unofficial Sony mouthpiece, ThreeSpeech, has said that the reason the UK (and presumably the rest of Europe) isn’t getting a price cut along with the US is because they don’t want to annoy people. On the face of it it sounds pretty daft, but if you think logically…

Games Are Not Art, Says Movie Critic

Respected US movie critic, Roger Ebert, has responded to Clive Barker’s address at the recent Hollywood and Games Summit after Barker took exception to an article the critic wrote about a year ago in which he said video games could not be art. Does he know what he’s talking about, my first reaction is to [...]

Steam To Rival Windows Live, Beta Launch Soon

At the end of last month Valve announced that it would be expanding Steam, its digital content distribution system, to include more community based functions. In an announcement on Friday, Valve revealed that the beta of the new functions would be going live at the end of the month, thats 10 days people. (From Firing [...]

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