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Amidst all the furore of Xbox and PlayStation at this year’s E3, a couple of important iOS announcement slipped under many people’s radars. The first is that Apple is introducing a Kids category to the App Store. As The Guardian notes, kid-specific downloads are currently found scattered throughout the Education, …

Deutsche Gamestage and GameDuell call for support to expand industry in German capital

Smileworks to create games for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia Symbian

E3 may be over but Sony will do all it can to ride on the wave of goodwill that it generated in LA for as long as possible. Speaking to Yahoo, SCE chief exec Andrew House and made further statements about the company’s appreciation of the public backlash to Microsoft’s …

Develop investigates the reality of the games industry in the German capital

Some might say that losing your game collection for being racist and homophobic on Xbox Live is actually a good thing. However, the truth remains that racists and homophobes have big spending power (or at least their parents do) so Microsoft has moved to calm them by quelling fears that …

Sony’s widely acclaimed PS3 thriller The Last of Us is the UK number one game this week. The game has comfortably claimed the top spot, and helped drive a surge in the games market, which was worth 12.4m last week (stat calculated by MCV based on GfK/Chart-Track data). The market …

'PIP' prototype uses biometric feedback to inform gamers of their stress levels

Not much was shown about the new Mad Max when it was announced at Sony’s E3 media briefing, but we had the opportunity to go behind closed doors with developer Avalanche Studios to see the game in action. Here are five important facts about Mad Max: This is not a …

Ridiculous Fishing developer loses a bag containing most of its gear