Gearbox Software has confirmed recent rumour that it would complete development on long-delayed shooter Duke Nukem Forever, following last year's closure of original developer 3D Realms.
The reborn game was unveiled at the PAX conference today, with Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford confirming release to the Wall Street Journal.
"Clearly the game hadn't been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created," he said.
Kinect Sports developer Rare has played down worries about the size of room required by upcomin Xbox 360 motion controller Kinect.
In July online shop Amazon revealed Kinect requires six feet of space between the player and their television, fueling much debate as to its effectiveness in small rooms.
However, Rare's senior software engineer Nick Burton said the issue has been blown out of proportion.
It has been alleged that an American firm has this week purchased Project MyWorld from the administrators of Realtime Worlds.
The report by Develop did not name the mystery firm, but if it is indeed American, earlier suggestion that Realtime World's Dundee-based bosses Dave Jones and Ian Hetherington were planning on buying the social game back would appear unfounded.
Also alleged is that Realtime World's other title, the commercially unsuccessful MMO APB, is not part of the deal, leaving its fate unknown.
Publisher Bethesda has announced it will present its portfolio of upcoming games at the 2010 Eurogamer Expo in London next month.
The Earl's Court event is the UK's largest consumer games show, and now adds Bethesda titles RAGE, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Fallout: New Vegas and Brink to its roster of publicly-showcased games.
In attendance will be id Software creative director Tim Willits, plus inXile game director Maxx Kaufman and president Matt Findley.
Sales for Take-Two's most recent quarter were dominated by the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 - amounting to 93 per cent of the publisher's revenues, up from 44 per cent last year.
49 Per cent of revenue was from Xbox 360 games, 44 from PlayStation 3 titles, compared to 32 and 12 per cent respectively for the same period in 2009.
Wii revenues plummeted from 16 per cent for the quarter ending July 31 last year to 1 per cent in the most recent quarter - a marginal figure also claimed by PSP and DS, down from 10 and 4 per cent respectively. PC dropped from 14 to 4 per cent.
Sony Computer Entertainment America has filed suit against an online stockist of the notorious PSJailbreak device.
Shoppsjailbreak.com, owned by one Zoomba LDC, is one of two distributors endorsed by the makers of the anti-copy protection device.
Sony has accused it of copyright violation, contravening the DMCA and trademark infringement, amongst other charges.
A culture of distrust between the games industry, politicians and the media remains, GameCity festival director and National Videogame Archive co-founder Iain Simons has told Gamesindustry.biz.
So much so, he claimed, that game-playing political figures are not willing to reveal their interactive entertainment habits in public.
In an interview which will be published on in full GamesIndustry.biz next week, Simons told of a planned article for The New Statesman (to which he contributes) on gaming MPs and other Westminster notables.
Capcom's head of R&D Keiji Inafune believes that Canada is rapidly racing to the forefront of the games industry.
Canada was "getting very important now," the Dead Rising 2 producer told NowGamer. "They've got potential to be at the epicentre of videogame development."
It was recently revealed that Canada had leapfrogged the UK to become the third-largest game development territory.
The Indie Game Challenge is looking for further submissions to its 2011 development competition, with just one month remaining before the October 1 deadline.
The contest accepts both amateur and professional applications, with prizes including two lots of $100,000, a $50,000 scholarship for The Guildhall at SMU and pitch meetings with Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, THQ, Capcom, Microsoft and NAMCO/Bandai at next year's D.I.C.E. Summit.
"Cogs was selected as a launch title for the iPad, it picked up retail sales in Europe and is currently making its way to a number of other platforms," claimed Rob Jagnow of grand prize winner Lazy 8 Studios.
Red Dead Redemption has helped publisher Take-Two Interactive to a set of stronger-than-expected third quarter financial results, with net revenue jumping by over 270 per cent from $94.9 million to $354.1 million in the three months ending July 31.
The Rockstar-developed Western title has now sold almost 7 million units worldwide since its release in May this year, while catalogue sales of GTA titles, NBA 2K10 and Borderlands also contributed.
After costs that translated to a net profit of $6 million, compared to a loss last year of $56 million, causing the company to raise its guidance for the fourth quarter and full year results.