Crytek executive Cevat Yerli has said that Europeans view first-person shooter games as "evil," according to Forbes. The developer was cited in an article addressing the differences between American and European gamer habits. According to the piece, Europeans prefer racing and 'soccer' games to blockbuster action, adventure and shooters. ...

Remember that angry chief of police from Lethal Weapon? The one that's going absolutely mental over Mel Gibson and Danny Glover's various screw ups? Well that's what Microsoft's PR boss must look like this morning, as online survey site Intellisponse leaks its entire E3 line-up onto the internet. Someone's going to get sacked.

On the game front there's first word on Forza Motorsport 3 (as if it wasn't coming), which according to ...

At a "strategy level" Microsoft wants to be first to the market again with its next-generation Xbox, Entertainment & Device Devision boss Robbie Bach has said.

Speaking during an interview with Venture Beat, Bach said that if you asked him whether being first to market with Xbox 360 was the right decision, he'd say "definitely yes," and the platform holder has a desire to do it again with the next console.

"The last cycle for ...

When blog site Xbox 360 Fanboy posted picture evidence of Microsoft's rumoured Mii-styled 'Avatars' system yesterday, it triggered a deluge of secret information spilling on to the net, including info on Guitar Hero 4, Forza Motorsport 3, a 360 karaoke game called Lips and plenty more besides ...

John Diamonon, an associate product manager at Capcom, has said that the firm looks to eBay in order to find out what old games people would like to see on today's formats."Sometimes we see games on eBay, and that's how you see what games people are willing to spend $80 on," Diamonon told MTV.

"To choose titles to revive, we see if we can give old franchises the modern touch, and we evaluate the fanbase and see if there's a market ...

Okay, so you can't actually win the job, we need you to apply and then impress us in an interview or two, but it's true - we do need a new writer (formal title? Section Editor)

A writer who wants to be part of the good ship GamesRadar and get paid (some) money to produce brilliant web content about videogame culture. And not get upset when they get flamed on blogs and forums. ...

Turbine Studios, the team behind Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, is advertising for a new senior console engineer for either the Xbox 360 or PS3.

No specific games are mentioned in the vacancy featured on the company's own website, but it does call for the applicant to be involved with updating Turbine's own MMO engine and tools to consoles.

The engine currently supports both Dungeons and Dragons: ...

Microsoft's president of entertainment and devices, Robbie Bach, has debunked internet rumours that the company will announce a Blu-ray equipped Xbox 360 later on today.

Speculation mounted over the weekend that Microsoft was planning to upstage Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference later on today by confirming that the 360 would see Blu-ray by Christmas.

However, when asked by the San Francisco Chronicle whether ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is signed up to play Atari-creator Nolan Bushnell in a biopic that the movie star will also produce.

The movie is currently without a director, but it will be written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, according to Variety.

Bushnell has been targeted by various Hollywood studios over the years, but the two writers apparently were the only ones to convince him they could do his life justice.

Whether or ...

Microsoft is unhappy with the ability to find content on Xbox Live Marketplace, 360 product management director Aaron Greenberg has put on record.

"I think that we are not, I would say... happy with the ability to find and discover content as easily as we'd like for consumers to be able to do that," Greenberg, told MTV Multiplayer.

The feeling has caused the platform holder to start removing underperforming and poorly ...