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Codemasters has revealed it will be bringing sequels to three of its major releases from this year. 2010 will see follow-ups to DIRT 2, Ashes Cricket 2009 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. All three titles enjoyed major sales success and flourished at a time when other publishers decided to push their titles into the first [...]

Square Enix and Gas Powered Games have formed a strategic partnership and announced that work has begun on Supreme Commander 2. This deal marks the first step towards Square Enix increasing western development efforts aimed for the global markets, having previously worked exclusively with Japanese development companies. The original Supreme Commander was one of the [...]

Electronic Arts has announced a deal with Universal Pictures to produce a movie based on their action shooter game, Army of Two. Production on the movie will begin in 2009 and is the second movie-based project from Electronic Arts, with The Sims movie expected next year. The computer games giant has also hinted at a [...]

Update: Also confirmed that the Barbarian will be the only returning class in Diablo III. MTV is carrying word from Lead Diablo Designer Jay Wilson that Blizzard has more planned in the Diablo series after Diablo III – no more decade long waits. “It’s not just ‘Diablo III’ — we’ve got plans beyond,” said Wilson. [...]

Yes, Elite IV is still on the cards. Braben was heard discussing the under wraps project at Develop not too long ago. Here’s what we know: – It’s ‘very, very deep and dark’ – There were originally to be two versions of the game: online and offline. Whether this still stands is unclear. – Braben [...]

So, the big news is that Diablo III’s definitely on the way, and is a good way into its dev cycle. The surprising news is that Blizzard released a lot of details of the weekend. You can grab a huge 20 min gameplay trailer right here, while there’s a flashier but less informative cinematic trailer [...]

Edit: Loads of game details here. Edit: This just in, it’s been confirmed. That really was the world’s worst kept secret. GamesIndustry.biz is running a story around Blizzard’s big event in Paris this weekend, reporting that the mega-dev is to announce a major new project. If it’s not Diablo III I’ll eat my hat. And, [...]

Cliffy B of Epic has said in an interview with German site Game Reactor that if Gears 2 fares well, we’re certain to see a third, and then a fourth. “If Gears of War 2 is a success then naturally we’ll look at a third. The same applies if number three sells well, then we’ll [...]

In a word, it’s CoD4 +1. Yes, CoD5 will take the common sequel route of dishing out a souped up version of the last game, complete with all the features you wanted the first time around, developed by a different team. The game will be developed by Treyarch – the team behind CoD3 – rather [...]

Next-Gen is running a story with Yves Guillemot – chief exec of Ubisoft – concerning the challenge level we can expect to see in BGE2. “We think the game was probably a little too difficult for the general gamers at that time. We’re going to make it more accessible and make sure that it’s really [...]

Yes. According to this JeuxVideo piece, BGE2 has been in pre-production for around a year now, with Michael Ancel and a team of around ten working on the project. Michael Ancel is the creator of Rayman and the original BGE and, following poor sales of the first game, has since worked on an aborted sequel, [...]

Shacknews is reporting the early details of the next in Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise: multiple instruments and song creation. Guitar Hero was a series originally developed by Harmonix which went on to revolutionise music and party gaming. When the developer fell out with publisher Activision, the team moved on to join forces with EA and [...]