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Milestone Interactive will distribute EA’s Xbox games in India going forward, the company announced today. Milestone already distributes the FIFA publisher’s PC and PlayStation games, and with the addition of Xbox, it now distributes all of EA’s retail products. We are proud to acknowledge that our business relationship of the …

British game industry looks to put affected devs back into employment

O2 customers who buy either an iPhone 5S or 5C won’t be able to connect to the operator’s 4G LTE network right away. That’s because of a technical issue that will require the input of Apple to resolve. And that’s not expected to happen straight away. "The iPhone 5C and …

Forget smartphones, the economy or stock shortages – the biggest threat to the next generation of consoles could be Grand Theft Auto V. The latest issue of GameInformer (as reported by CVG) has a host of details about the upcoming GTA V expansion Grand Theft Auto online, chief of which …

Call of Duty: Ghosts has been installed as the favourite to claim the UK Christmas No.1 title by William Hill. It’s currently offering 6/4 on the game with FIFA 14 second at 2/1 and next week’s release Grand Theft Auto V in third at 4/1. There is no doubting that …

There’s something quite refreshing about the executives at Sony. They haven’t had their personalities media trained out of them. They will give you a straight answer (most of the time). They do appear nervous on stage in front of thousands of journalists. They are more than happy to mock their …

Intel Developer Blog recaps past Android OSs and what lies beyond their candy-covered names

175 jobs have today been lost following the sad news that UK development stalwart Blitz Games has ceased trading. The company, which houses a number of divisions, was founded by the Oliver twins Andrew and Philip in 1990. In slightly better news, two of the studio’s current projects are said …

Longstanding stalwart of UK development sector ceases trading with immediate effect; some jobs saved

The re-designed PlayStation Vita has been constructed with a very simple premise in mind – make the system cheaper and more appealing. To put it differently, the Slim is about attracting more gamers without affecting the game experience” the machine’s head of design Mika Nagae told Famitsu, as reported by …