Late last year, we were reporting that Mark Healey - long time Lionhead veteran and creator of Rag Doll Kung Fu, one of 2005's major gameplay breakthroughs - had in fact left Peter Monlyneux's studio, at that time planning to start working on a new game in 2006. Which apparently is exactly what he's been doing for the past few months, (...)

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Nintendo Was Showing Wii's In GameCube Housings At E3

Soon after Nintendo's pre-E3 briefing, rumours were flying high and low that the Wii casings displayed at the event were pretty much empty (save for those pretty blue lights), and that the real hardware was actually running from inside GameCube housings hidded from view. But apparently they weren't hidden well enough, (...)

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June 22nd is a date that an awful lot of gamers will be waiting for, reckons 3D Realms. According to a recent update posted on their website, June 22nd will go down in (and probably quickly fade away from) gaming history as "Prey Day" - the day the allmighty Prey demo version was unleashed upon the world. (...)

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Shadowbane Lives On, As Wolfpack Veterans Establish New Studio

Another bit of news involving Ubisoft is the formation of a new (independent) development studio, Stray Bullet Games, by veterans of the recently-closed Wolfpack (Ubisoft Annecy) studio - creators of Shadowbane. The fate of their MMORPG had been uncertain ever since then, but fans can now sigh in relief, as Ubisoft promises (...)

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Former Ubisoft Montreal Head Can't Work For Vivendi... Yet

After all the fighting going on betweek Ubisoft and Electronic Arts in recent years, you'd think they'd kiss and make up by now. But they're far from it! Some of you might recall the 2003 case when several Splinter Cell devs left Ubisoft to work for EA's new Montreal studio, despite their non-compete agreement with Ubisoft (...)

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Immersion Mocks Sony Over Lack Of Rumble In PS3 Controller

Sony lost some major points after its pre-E3 conference, when it announced that the final PlayStation 3 controller would no longer feature rumble technology, claiming that it would be impossible to implement it, due to its interfering with the controller's new tilt sensors. But is it really "impossible"? Immersion Corporation thinks not, (...)

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Nintendo Wii Classic Controller And WiiConnect24 // UPDATE

Wii'rd how we missed this last week when it was first announced, but it's well worth mentioning (even with such delay) that Nintendo's Wii console will also come equiped with a more classic controller, pictured below. Sceptics of the "Wii remote" might therefore reconsider their position towards Nintendo's next-gen console (...)

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The organizers of E3 2006 sure made some strange decisions this year - starting with those cruel "anti-booth-babes" regulations, which literally flattened the show's image (not to mention pictures!), and ending with the $5000 fine "awarded" to publisher NCsoft, for supposedly breaching the E3 noise regulations. (...)

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Ubisoft And Free Radical Collaboration Turns To Haze

Continuing with our "better late than never" E3 reports, Ubisoft's big revelation at last week's gaming mecca was a next-gen shooter called Haze. The project itself isn't actually new - we've known about it since back in November, when Ubi announced their collaboration with Free Radical Design (...)

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PlayStation 3 To Launch With 15 Titles And Free Online Play

Following several reports that appeared on Bloomberg, GamesIndustry.biz put together a story about Sony's treatment of PS3 developers so far, and the number of launch titles for their next-gen console. According to Kaz Hirai (Sony Computer Entertainment America boss), around 15 software titles are expected to launch (...)

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