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You may have a keen aim when it comes to targeted marketing campaigns, but how well do you fare with a sniper rifle? MCV and Square Enix is looking for the UK games industry’s deadliest assassin in our Hitman Sniper Challenge competition. The best performers each month will win a …
Read More »Angry Birds gets a sequel – Bad Piggies, out September 27th
The biggest hit in modern gaming is to receive a sequel. Angry Birds had a pseudo successor earlier this year in the form of Angry Birds Space, but September 27th will see the release of its first direct sequel – Bad Piggies. The game will cost 69p to download on …
Read More »Nicholas Lovell joins Spilt Milk Studios board
iOS game developer Spilt Milk Studios has announced that analyst Nicholas Lovell has joined its board. Spilt Milk’s has to date published two titles – Crunch: the Game and frantic arcade hit Hard Lines, which was co-developed with Nicoll Hunt who has since left the company. Lovell has a wealth …
Read More »Interactive Ideas withdraws from retail product distribution
It’s a sign of the time – distributor Interactive Ideas is withdrawing from retail product distribution. However, rather than focus on the decline in traditional retail sectors the company has instead chose to focus on the growth it sees in enterprise software – that is, software and IT used by …
Read More »‘Hardest RPG ever’ Dark Souls could get an ‘easy mode’
Dark Souls has made its name on being hard. Like, really hard. And while its success has come on the back of the stiff challenge it offers – and conversely on the achievement felt by those who topple it – the game’s director Hidetaka Miyazakiis considering the introduction of an …
Read More »UPDATE: Microsoft insists that Xbox Live won’t be down for long
Xbox Live has been down most of this morning. And gamers are not at all happy. It doesn’t help, of course, that today’s the day that the second piece of DLC for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, called Hearthfire, is out now. But despite no sign of a reprieve Microsoft tells …
Read More »First Windows 8 Xbox 360 games confirmed
Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride and others lead third-party charge
Read More »DisneyUTV to distribute Gameloft titles via mobile operators in India
Gameloft has tied up with DisneyUTV for distribution of its line-up of mobile titles via cell phone operators in India. In addition, DisneyUTV will also make Gameloft titles available through UTV Indiagames’ destination sites. This is one of the most strategic alliances we have made, especially in light of some …
Read More »JOBS IN GAMES: Recruitment Agencies – "We’re not dead yet"
Continuing our Jobs In Games special, in association with OPM, Aardvark Swift’s managing director Ian Goodall explains why the rise of social media will not kill off recruitment agencies. Social Media… Internal Recruiters: Is this the end of the road for Recruitment Agencies? We’re in a recession; companies are under …
Read More »Hackers obtain 12m Apple UDIDs from FBI laptop
AntiSec, one of the many internet hacking communities, has claimed that it has obtained the UDIDs and user details of 12m Apple users. UDID stands for ‘unique device identifier’ and is a 40-character code often used for app tracking and authentication purposes. DailyTech reports that the group obtained an FBI-owned …
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