Mario Tennis Open review

Nintendo adds colour-matching to its spin on the sport.

Nintendo adds colour-matching to its spin on the sport.
Microsoft has changed its Xbox Live Indie Games terms to allow developers to adjust the price of their games every seven days. Previously, XBLIG developers could only make changes to the price of their releases every 90 days. The new terms will take affect from May 23. More >
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Publisher to pay Bungie $2.5 million bonus per game if score of 90 on gamerankings.com is achieved.
Capcom has confirmed that Ninja Theory's Devil May Cry reboot, DMC, won't be released until next year. The game is now scheduled for a January 15, 2013, launch in the US with a PC version set to arrive later in the year. More >

How Ninja Theory is allaying fan fears by retaining the devilish core of Capcom’s series.
Team 17 co-founder Martyn Brown has been appointed by Activision to help the publisher establish a new mobile development studio in the north of England. More >
In a post on the studio's community website, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford says that the delay has come from the studio's insistence that quality will not be compromised by deadlines, adding that, by the time it comes out, Colonial Marines will have been in development for roughly the same amount of time as Borderlands and the original Brothers in Arms. More >
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Illustrator Jon Caplin's first game is an homage to Bullfrog's 1989 classic
In a post on the studio's website Ulf Andersson, game director on multiplayer FPS Payday: The Heist, writes: "We are excited to be able to confirm that an in-depth collaboration between Overkill and Valve is currently in production." More >

PopCap's Giordano Contestabile dares to dream of the possibilities in what will be one of the defining trends of the next few years.

TT Games employee tweets image of revised tablet design, featuring proper analogue sticks.
The move is a clear attempt by EA to capitalise on the ever-increasing number of videogame projects funded by crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter by waiving its fees. While EA's revenue-sharing policy has never been disclosed, the industry standard is a 30 per cent cut for the platform holder. More >
Rockstar Games' Max Payne 3 is the new number one in the UK all-formats chart, beating sales of 2003 predecessor Max Payne 2 by almost ten copies to one. More >

Capcom injects a jolt of adrenaline into the Japanese roleplaying game.
3The Evolution Of Combat project aims to transform the game’s combat system to “revolutionise the way players fight and interact in-game”. Specifics remain shrouded in secrecy, with Jagex promising more news in due course. More >

The InXile founder on how crowd funding has connected him with fans and liberated him from draconian publishers.

You may think you know Diablo, but you don’t know it with this level of polish.
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We duck in for one at the watering hole that doubles as a purgatorial stopover on the way to maturity.

Consultant, author and futurist Scott Steinberg on the things to get right if you want your project to succeed.
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