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UK games trade body UKIE has been confirmed as the sponsor of this year’s Dare to be Digital video games design competition. Run by University of Abertay, Dundee, the competition received some high-profile backing earlier this year when it was endorsed by the Livingstone-Hope skills review. UKIE is delighted to …
Read More »Mobile games claim half of all game downloads
Digital games downloads for mobile games devices now account for around half of all full game downloads. That’s according to a new report entitled Online Gaming 2011 from US stats body NPD. The figure does not include money spent on micro-transactions or game add-ons. Mobile gaming represents one of the …
Read More »Stringer’s position under threat
The positions of both chief executive SIr Howard Stringer and corporate executive officer and executive VP Kaz Hirai are under threat as a result of the ongoing PSN saga. That’s the opinion of two fund managers speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian. "The way Sony handled the whole thing goes …
Read More »FIFA makes users ‘more aggressive’ than COD
Call of Duty, Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto – these are the familiar names of killer games sewing their evil seeds in the minds of children across the nation. But little did we know that a far more dangerous threat has been lurking on our kids’ shelves for years in the …
Read More »Square Enix grabs Dead Island rights
It has been confirmed that Square Enix is to distribute Techland’s Dead Island in the US as part of a co-publishing agreement with publisher Deep Silver. Square Enix’s impressive distribution and marketing capabilities, combined with their proven success with launching top-notch AAA titles, makes them the absolute best partner for …
Read More »Sony: We knew PSN security flaws
'We have to admit we were not fully sufficient' exec admits
Read More »PlayStation Network: How it was breached
Sony execs follow the path of a hacker who changed the face of PlayStation
Read More »Kebab Manager slices up App Store
As a rule, kebabs and iPhones shouldn’t generally mix. Dried chilli sauce on your touchscreen is never fun the morning after. However, developer Softgames is hoping for a more positive respnse to its new Kebab Manager game. That’s right: Kebab Manager. A game that encourages players to "raise your own …
Read More »Further Wii successor tech claims
Nintendo’s new console will not include a hard drive, will house 8GB of internal flash memory and offer a proprietary disc format capable of storing 25GB of information. Those are the claims being made by Kotaku this morning as the rumour mill surrounding the still mysterious Wii successor continues. The …
Read More »Remedy CEO wants an end to games retail
An all-encompassing shift to digital distribution would be a forwards step for the games industry, the boss of Finnish studio Remedy has declared. Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne believes a digital-only games ecosystem would help all in the industry, aside from one group he appears to have no sympathy for. The …
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