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Audio signal processing company iZotope has signed a deal to provide pitch correction technology to Harmonix for Rock Band 3. That means your usually brain-scraping off-tone bellowing will be converted into something at least mildly audible by the game before it’s pumped through the speakers, making everyone’s experience that little bit better. “Using iZotope’s real-time …

No, not of the swimming variety, but a trailer for personal PlayStation Home pool tables has hit the net.  There are two tables on offer for English and American pool styles and you can have them in your own Home apartment, invite friends over and play pool on them. That’s what they’re for. We assume you’ve …

Most folks believe that excessive gaming is bad for the eyes.  Good thing for Ben Michaels that most folks aren’t eye physicians. The six year-old British boy suffers from amblyopia, or lazy eye syndrome, which causes degraded vision that over time could become permanent. But according to the Daily Mail, the boy’s eyesight may have …

In the future it could make sense to make World of Warcraft a free-to-play MMO, Blizzard has hinted. Speaking to PC Gamer at its studios in Irvine, California, WoW’s lead designer, Tom Chilton made clear that the rise of the free-to-play western MMO hasn’t gone unnoticed at Blizzard, explaining that “at some point, it may …

After 7 weeks of problems, the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC patch (R8) is finally live, rolling out via Steam in addition to the game’s auto updater. Steam should download the update on its own once restarted. If you have a retail copy, run the BFBC2Updater.exe in your install directory to grab the update. Game server providers …

Realtime Worlds is taking a unique approach to APB’s voice chat. The massively multiplayer shooter will include in-game advertisements over the chat, which can be disabled for a fee. Called “VOIP Premium,” the service disables the adverts for 30, 90 or 180 days. It was discovered by a user on the official forums (via Massively), …

Technical specifications for the 360 motion sensor Kinect have hit the net and as far as requirements are concerned, to use the device you’ll need an Xbox 360 (obviously) and any will do as long as it has 175MB of storage for drivers and other software, and a single USB port.  Yippee.  I fail on …

Rockstar today confirmed that more Red Dead Redemption download content will be ‘announced soon’.  In response to a question about whether there’d be more DLC on the horizon, a Rockstar rep replied via the dev’s official Twitter page: “Yup! Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing more new DLC soon.” The last DLC wagon brought a pack …

Sony has confirmed that it will be releasing PS3 firmware update 3.40 “soon” adding, above all, functionality for the PlayStation Plus premium subscription service, detailed below. By “soon” it must mean ‘any moment now’ considering PS Plus is launching June 29 (today if you’re reading in UK).   The update also adds the ability to browse, …

I know we’ve said it before, and this saga is really as pathetic as it is frustrating, BUT… The Battlefield Bad Company 2 R8 patch IS coming this Wednesday.  DICE had this to say via the UK forums. After a lot of trials and tribulations, all versions of the game client has now completed QA …

Microsoft’s Kinect launch at E3 was a big production in which no expense was spared. The company had Cirque du Soleil perform a specially-written show in the first of their two launch events. There may have been elephants to trumpet the arrival of the new controller-less controller, there was one thing missing: Its price. Last …

It’s official.  Motion controllers have “amazing potential” for shooters.  At least, so says Splash Damage boss, Paul Wedgwood. Speaking today, the Brink developer expressed a big interest in Microsoft and Sony’s new technology, though argued that the obvious implementation for the devices in first-person shooters might not necessarily be the best. “I think these motion …

Take-Two’s CEO, Ben Feder has emphasised how much of an impact Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption has had on the publisher. In fact, Feder says that the massively popular title was a “game changer” for Take-Two. “It’s a big bet for sure. As it turns out, it paid off,” Feder told VentureBeat. “Even after the high …

The PlayStation 3 “is on fire” according to EA’s John Schappert.  The publisher’s COO and former corporate VP of Xbox Live took some time out to praise Sony’s console, after EA took to the stage during Sony’s conference at E3 in LA. “We’re platform agnostic. We sell more software on both the PlayStation 3 and …

PlayStation 3 owners who have been experiencing issues with the Medal of Honor beta will be pleased to hear that EA has released a patch for the game that is currently waiting to make your beta experience much more enjoyable. Beta players on PC and PS3 have been complaining about a variety of problems since …