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Konami has announced that its Kinect dancing game, Dance Masters, will come to Europe this November. Now named DanceEvolution, the game is set to go head-to-head with Harmonix’s Dance Central. The title is on show at Gamescom in Cologne. As an expert in the rhythm-based genre with games such as …

Attendees at Gamescom 2010 can now view the schedule of key events with dates and times of press conferences, tournaments and more. The show runs from August 18th to 22nd with Tuesday 17th dedicated to members of the press. Here’s the full events schedule: Tuesday August 17th – 12.30pm – …

This year’s Gamescom event will boast more exhibitors from more countries than ever before, the organisers have confirmed. Gamescom kicks off on Wednesday August 18th at Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. MCV will be offering unprecedented coverage of the event and is operating an MCV News Zone throughout the show, with …

The Hut and Incomm have joined IGN, Screen Digest and ELSPA in backing the UK’s biggest games industry conference. Following on from last year’s enormous success, the London Games Conference is focusing on shifts in revenue streams. Special attention will be paid to the impact of digital distribution, multi-player online …

After what the LA Times describes as a brawl” between Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick and Californian lawyer Patricia Glaser, the outspoken games executive has emerged on the losing side of a three-year court battle. In 2007 a flight attendant named Cynthia Madvig filed a lawsuit in the LA County …

Namco Bandai and Nordic Games have become the latest publishers to support this year’s Games Media Awards at the Bloomsbury Ballroom on Thursday, October 14th. Both will be helping the winners celebrate and the losers drown their sorrows by pushing singing and drinking to the top of the After Show …

The Xbox 360 S has enjoyed a bumper launch in the UK, with sales monitor GfK Chart-Track stating that the machine has achieved the biggest launch in the UK for a ‘revised’ home console”. The slimmed down unit arrived in the UK on Friday carrying an RRP of 199.99. Several …

A brand new games distributor specialising in casual titles has emerged – White Room Games. The firm has been set up by former PlayV general manager Luiz Ferreira, who takes on the role of director. White Room will focus on the casual games market and entice smaller publishers and developers …

Major publisher figureheads such as EA’s John Riccitiello, Sony’s Jack Tretton, Take Two’s Strauss Zelnick and Dinsey Interactive’ Graham Hopper have expressed their concern that the potential introduction of new laws controlling the sale of video games could have a major impact on the sector’s viability in North America. In …

A survey conducted by Kakaku.com in Japan paints a worrying picture for the prospects of 3D TV in the region, Reuters reports. 67.4 per cent of those questioned claimed to have no interest in buying a 3D TV. Of those, 70 per cent blamed the need to wear special 3D …