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• July 30, 2010

• Kinect: The “secret” formula for awesome controller-free games

  Kinect gaming needn’t be the stuff of nightmares. After some serious ‘hands off’ time with Microsoft’s costly peripheral, VGD jots down a few development tips.

• July 30, 2010

• Bungie’s multi-platform project may not be a shooter

  ‘We’re not quite ready to pin down a genre yet.’

• July 30, 2010

• Bungie: we will never charge for full online experience

  Halo Reach Campaign Director: ‘I think our philosophy is probably always going to be you should never have to pay for core entertainment, for core enjoyment.’

• July 28, 2010

• The next-best thing about 3DS? Turning the 3D off

  Edwin goes hands-on with Nintendo’s handsome new console, finding much to praise and a little (just a little) to criticise.

• July 23, 2010

• Interview of a lifetime: Microsoft talks mouse and keyboard

  In which Eva Robins attempts to sell you the SideWinder peripheral range, and we attempt to stop her.

• July 22, 2010

• Opinion: what can Dragon Quest teach Final Fantasy?

  A Tale of Two JRPGs. Why Final Fantasy needs to learn to laugh at itself.

• July 22, 2010

• GoldenEye remakers not worried by middling Wii shooter sales

  Activision Producer doesn’t see platform as a ‘challenge’, hints at possible PlayStation Move port.

• July 20, 2010

• Ubisoft did not ‘sacrifice depth’ to put R.U.S.E. on console

  Producer: ‘we basically solved the remaining issue in console strategy gaming’.

• July 19, 2010

• Interview: R.U.S.E. – RTS with a trick up its sleeve

  Has RTS finally cracked console? Why World War II? Is truth really the first casualty? VGD talks R.U.S.E. with Ubisoft producer Mathieu Girard.

• July 16, 2010

• Live Report: James Bond: Bloodstone – First Impressions

  We get a first look at the all-new Bond experience from Bizarre Creations and Activision, featuring the vocal talents and cheekbones of star singer Joss Stone.

• July 15, 2010

• Dead Rising films to get console exclusivity on Xbox Live

  Microsoft’s money-hat cannon works its magic once again.

• July 13, 2010

• Ubisoft: play co-op if you want the ‘real’ Future Soldier experience

  New Ghost Recon sets sights on ‘the experience or feeling of being a Spec Ops, with a team of friends.’

• July 13, 2010

• Interview: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

  We haunt a preview showing of Ubisoft’s next ultra-military four-man squad-botherer, then trade Qs and As with Product Manager Aziz Khater.

• July 9, 2010

• Driver: San Francisco Preview – trafficking with a teleporter

  John Tanner might have been in the wars, but he’s still up for a race. Hands-on with a PS3 build of Ubisoft’s unhinged car-chaser.

• July 8, 2010

• Assassin’s Creed franchise is ‘not going to be one a year’

  Brotherhood developer: ‘there’s definitely going to be a gap between this opus of Assassin’s Creed and the next.’

• July 8, 2010

• Interview: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

  Associate Producer Jean-Francois Boivin on drop-in co-op, being true to the universe, high-velocity fighting and the question of yearly sequels.

• July 8, 2010

• Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed co-op is ‘super-interesting’, but doesn’t make sense

  The idea could work from a ‘pure mechanical angle’, but would be hard to reconcile with the narrative.

• July 5, 2010

• Crackdown 2 Review: down in the dumps

  Ruffian Games attempts to deliver on the original Crackdown’s potential, but never quite leaves the launch pad.