Game industry business news

One leading tech site claims to have it on good authority that EA is on the verge of one of the largest acquisitions ever seen in the games industry. If true, TechCrunch‘s claims that EA is the mystery bidder behind a supposed $1bn swoop for PopCap would dwarf the $17m …

Valve’s recent release and critical hit Portal 2 has now sold in excess of 3m copies. The number comes from Gabe Newell himself and was revealed at the Games for Change event at New York yesterday, according to Joystiq. It’s understood that it covers both boxed retail and digital sales …

Having very much taken the back seat to PSP in the weeks that have followed its debut in Japan, Nintendo 3DS is finally back at the top of Media Create’s Japanese hardware charts. The machine sold almost 41k units last week, significantly up on the 25k sold the week before. …

Publishing giant 'to spend over $1 billion'

The Metropolitan Police has charged a hacker it arrested earlier this week with five offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act. As previously reported by MCV, the 19 year-old Essex teenager in question is indeed Ryan Cleary. He is accused of constructing and distributing bots designed to …

Rumours suggest big-money swoop could be made by Zynga, EA or DeNA

Mobile games giant Dena secures exclusivity deal with Epic

Sony is offering a free 180-day trial of its Q Music Unlimited service. It offers users the chance to sample the ad-free internet radio style experience with a library totalling 7m tracks. The deal is open to PS3 owners who haven’t previously or aren’t currently subscribed to the service. PS3 …

Sony’s PSVita will sponsor this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Gamess as Gold Partner. The firm will use the event to promote its upcoming handheld to the UK’s 200+ elite games media at what has become the big night of the year for the UK’s specialist press. …

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