SEGA and Nintendo yesterday officially announced a game which we were all expecting to hear about sooner or later: Mario and Sonic at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Mario and Sonic Olympic series has so far been hugely successful, selling over 19 million copies in total. Its most recent title, Mario and Sonic at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, went on to sell over 5 million copies in just ... more.

Speaking to French gaming site Gameblog.fr, Shigeru Miyamoto had a bit to say about the 3DS and Project Café. The renowned designer admitted that a new home console exists, but shot down rumours in his vague style: "I admit that there is no smoke without fire ... but we should not believe everything we read," said Miyamoto. He also spoke about the 3DS, confirming that new Legend of Zelda, Ma... more.

The internet has been buzzing with the recent rumours of an E3 unveiling of Nintendo's next home console, reportedly packing decidedly current-gen hardware, equivalent to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Now French news website 01net- who leaked the hardware specs of the NGP before its announcement- have reported that the new console is codenamed "Project Café" and that the hardware does indeed re... more.

Yesterday, the London Park Lane Hilton played host to one of the biggest awards ceremonies on the gaming calendar: the annual video game BAFTAs. Be it a celebrity, developer or journalist, all the big faces in the industry gathered together to see which games really stood out over the past 12 months. And our editor Mike got in too, for some reason. PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain came away ... more.

Activision Publishing yesterday announced Skylanders Spyro's Adventure, another reboot for the Spyro franchise that could actually be quite interesting. Using a "Portal of Power" peripheral the game allows the player to transport 30 different and collectable real-world Spyro-based toys into the game, bringing the toy to life as a character inside the game across multiple platforms, remembering ach... more.

At a recent press conference, publisher Activision announced the death of the Guitar Hero and DJ Hero franchises, which will be discontinued (including all DLC) come February 2011. Development on this year's Guitar Hero game has been cancelled, and Activision Publishing's Guitar Hero business unit has been disbanded. Long story short, the Hero franchise is dead. Activision cites 'declines in th... more.

Little in the way of detail has been given on the upcoming continuation of Traveller's Tales' LEGO series of games, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, since it was announced back in November. Covering locations and characters from the first three films and the upcoming 'On Stranger Tides', Disney have since released a new trailer for the game, showing a Legofied Jack Sparrow crashing into a pier and ... more.

Like day turning to night, it is inevitable that whenever a new Zelda title is revealed, there will be some 'die-hard' fans that disagree with Nintendo's choic in art style. It has happened since Wind Waker, and Skyward Sword is no exception. The game's producer Eiji Aonuma has explained with the Official Nintendo Magazine why the style was chosen, revealing that it is designed for the need to exa... more.

Traveller's Tales have released another video for LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4, this time it's a talk with the developers. They explain just how they managed to convert the magical Harry Potter universe into LEGO bricks. LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 flies into stores on all platforms on the 25th June.... more.