Summing up years' worth of sweat, toil and tears in a single word or phrase is the sort of trick that makes headline writers very happy but producers very mad, particularly if that word or phrase is 'Gears-clone', or indeed...

Meet Eva Robins. She has the honour and privilege of being Microsoft's Product Marketing Manager for PC gaming accessories. Which accessories? Why, accessories like the SideWinder X6 gaming keyboard, with its detachable keypad for left or right-handed play and...

They are to videogames what the Williams sisters are to professional tennis: gorgeous, intimidatingly successful and, in the absence of much real competition from beyond the gene pool, fierce rivals. I am, of course, referring to Final Fantasy and Dragon...

To first-person shooter studios, the Wii market is deeply hostile territory. But then maybe it's just a question of making the right shooter, the one that will alter how the platform is perceived and developed for. After all, nobody really...

Bringing a real-time strategy franchise to console is, veterans of the genre would tirelessly argue, much like taking a Challenger 2 tank, swapping the L30A1 120mm rifled gun for a champagne cooler, repainting the whole thing cream and using it...

The parallel that comes first to Producer Mathieu Girard's mind when he thinks of R.U.S.E., Ubisoft's punctuation-loving real-time strategiser, isn't Command & Conquer, or World in Conflict, or any of a hundred twentieth century warfare sims, but something far more...

Activision has just demoed James Bond: Bloodstone, a new chapter in secret agent history developed by tyres-and-vinyl studio Bizarre Creations, at an event on London's Marylebone Street. Daniel Craig fans: the eagle has landed. We were there when they walked the...

Any PC agnostics ravenous for a taste of Capcom's spin-off film series Zombrex Dead Rising Sun had better invest in an Xbox 360. The publisher just emailed to let us know that the premiere will air exclusively over Xbox Live...

Not so keen on partying up to smack terrorists around? You might want to mull over that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier preorder a little. Chatting to VGD at a preview event in London last week, Ubisoft's Aziz Khater has...

For many first-wave Xbox 360 buyers, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter was the game that scored the line between hardware generations the deepest, with its snazzy in-set video displays and billowing high resolution dust. Critics certainly thought so, and the game...