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Article | 30/06/2012 IN PICTURES: New Apple Store in Sydney's Broadway

With demand for Apple products seemingly at an all-time high in Australia, the company behind the wildly popular iPhone, iPad and MacBook products unv...

Article | 28/06/2012 Remembering Sydney’s Sega World: The little theme park that couldn’t

Sydney’s Darling Harbour area has undergone numerous changes over the decades, as the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (formerly known as the Darlin...

Article | 12/06/2012 Gaming Top 5: Reasons to try Dragon’s Dogma

While there was a lot of hope and hype riding behind Dragon’s Dogma, it did not quite set the critical world on fire in the same way, say, The Elder S...

Article | 24/04/2012 Interview: Capcom video game director, Hideaki Itsuno

It is not many people that actively make the decision to get into game development, but that is exactly what Capcom video game director, Hideaki Itsun...

Article | 23/04/2012 Hands-on preview: Dragon’s Dogma

THQ, Capcom’s local distributor, recently held a closed media event to showcase the latest build of its upcoming open world RPG, Dragon’s Dogma.

Article | 12/04/2012 Darksiders II interview: Vigil Games producer, Jay Fitzloff

Jay Fitzloff's history is all video games, but he still feels like he has run the gamut of everything, He initially started at Game Informer magazine ...

Article | 5/04/2012 PC gaming interview: 3dfx channel sales and marketing vice president, John Gunn

Now lost in the annals of IT history, there was a time when 3dfx was synonymous with cutting edge 3D graphics on PCs.

Article | 3/04/2012 Hands-on preview: Darksiders II

The adventures of the four horsemen of the apocalypse continues

Article | 30/03/2012 Mass Effect 3 Interview: BioWare associate project manager, Robyn Théberge

Robyn Théberge started her career in video game development after joining BioWare two years ago. Based at the developer's Edmonton office in Canada, t...

Article | 29/03/2012 How much will digital gaming be worth in Asia-Pacific in 2016? Try $US30 billion

$US30.3 billion is a number that analyst firm, Ovum, has attached to the worth of the Asia Pacific digital games market in 2016.

Article | 27/03/2012 Flight Control Rocket interview: Firemint project lead, Ptolemy Oberin

Firemint project lead, Ptolemy Oberin, sat down and talked to PC World about making iPhone games, Flight Control Rocket, and being featured in Apple c...

Article | 26/03/2012 HTML5 provides a tour of The Hunger Games' "Capitol"

Microsoft and Lionsgate Entertainment have partnered for an innovative web experience for fans of The Hunger Games.

Article | 19/03/2012 Gaming Top 5: Must have PlayStation Vita launch titles

PC World picks its top five Vita games from the initial launch line-up of first party titles

Article | 11/03/2012 IN PICTURES: Did the six most overhyped games of 2011 deliver?

We look at what we predicted to be six of 2011's biggest potential gaming disappointments and whether our predictions came true or not

Article | 13/03/2012 A look at Photoshop Disasters and other catastrophes

Graphics professionals have grown accustomed to using Adobe's Photoshop suite to get the most out of their photos and visual designs. While most artis...