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The Prime Minister of Finland has accused Apple of taking down two of the country’s largest economic lynchpins. The Scandinavian country yesterday saw its sovereign debt rating downgraded from AAA to AA+ by ratings agency Standard & Poor. "We have two champions which went down," PM Alexander Stubb told CNBC. …

Event returns to Warwickshire on October 30th – don't miss out

Newcastle-based developer Reflections turns 30 this year, and its team has come a long way from the days of Destruction Derby and Driver. James Batchelor visited the studio to find out what it has learned along the way

Defunct developer Factor 5 was once working on two Star Wars games that sadly never made it to shelves. One was a Star Wars: Rogue Squadron trilogy, combining the three well-received titles released on Nintendo 64 and GameCube, for multiple platforms. The compilation would have seen all three games remastered …

Cigital's Amit Sethi and Arxan's Rennie Allen offer advice on how to improve your cybersecurity

The last time we spoke to Ubisoft we discussed how the firm has come in for a fair bit of flack in recent months. Whether it was for its support (or lack of) for PC gamers, or the fact Watch Dogs didn’t quite change the world like everyone thought it …

The latest release estimate for PS4’s Gran Turismo 7 is some time over the next two years. For GT7, myself and my staff have a clear vision: to do everything we couldn’t do in GT6,” series creator Kazunori Yamauchi told GamesTM. We want to make it very Gran Turismo. By …

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Scrapped projects include Rogue Squadron trilogy and multiplayer dogfighter for Xbox 360

A video showing some on-planet action in crowdfunded mega-hit Star Citizen has been released. The game – whose total funding currently stands at over $58m – promises an ambitious reach far in excess of its many market rivals, and visiting bustling metropolises is one such example. Unlike other titles in …