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Here's where you can keep an eye on all updates and gaming news for July, 2010

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.

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