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Ubisoft has announced a tenth instalment in its highly successful dancing series – Just Dance Kids. The game will be released on November 4th in the UK for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Kinect and Move compatibility has been confirmed. The game will feature 40 kid-orientated tracks as well as …

Revenue from in-game advertising is expected to increase in the next few years, but are advertisers making the most of our medium? The new Advertising and Video Games report by research firm DFC Intelligence predicts that the in-game advertising market will reach $7.2bn globally by 2016, according to IndustryGamers. The …

Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has demonstrated PlayStation Vita’s ability to play games streamed directly from a PS3. The president of Sony Worldwide Studios was showing off PS Vita’s Remote Play technology at Tokyo Games Show, reports VG247. He played Killzone 3 on the PS Vita which was streamed onto the handheld …

Rockstar’s upcoming Max Payne 3 has received its first official trailer. The game is being developed by the Rockstar Vancouver studio, though other developers – including the London officer – will also be chipping in. In it we see the troubled Max arrive in Sao Paulo. So much is the …

Activision has teamed up with Sony to create an exclusive Move bundle for the release of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded. Entitled the Double ‘O’ Edition, the SKU includes a copy of the game, a PlayStation Move controller, a navigation controller, PlayStation Eye Camera and Sharp Shooter peripheral, which transforms the controller …

Dev kit allows studios to deploy games across smartphones and handhelds

The mobile gaming network’s CEO and co-founder Jason Citron has resigned after the company was sold to Gree earlier this year. OpenFeint will now be run by Naoki Aoyagi, who is also CFO of the firm’s Japanese parent company Gree. He has ten years’ experience in finance and management including …

Ahead of its worldwide release on Tuesday September 20th, the review embargo on Microsoft’s Gears of War 3 has been lifted. And it probably won’t be the biggest surprise in the world to discover that the praise has been unanimous. Here are a few snippets from a number of the …

Sony’s mobile gaming push has been taken to the next logical step, with news that developers are to be given the tools to make PlayStation Vita compatible Android games. We’ve already seen developments the other way round, of course. Sony Ericsson has released its PlayStation Certified Xperia Play mobile phone, …

A new entertainment commercial and marketing broker, Bosh Entertainment, has launched – with the former Barrington Harvey chief at the helm. Simon Harvey has teamed up with US-based marketing wiz Tina Vukovic, who has worked for Sony Music and Geffen.The new firm hopes to use its media and marketing expertise …