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Fiscal year 2012 shows 64% growth for mobile publisher

'Internal sources and leaked documents' show new console is dramatically cheaper than PS3

Acton Smith set on cracking America and the Far East, as he delivers a rallying cry for entrepreneurs

Microcomputer to offered to teachers to combat computing education crisis

Tech outfit puts forward prize as UKIE pledges space for event

Yes, you read the headline correctly – The Pirate Bay has threatened to sue a rival website over an alleged case of copyright infringement. TorrentFreak reports that Finnish anti-piracy group the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) launched a website designed to mimic TPB’s user interface to build a service …

CCP and Crytek predict monetisation model will be core to the make up of future hardware

The legal tussle between EA and Zynga appears to be over. EA had launched a legal assault on Zynga over casual game TheVille, which it argued borrowed heavily from its own The Sims 3. Zynga, in retaliation, launched its own lawsuit against EA alleging that EA CEO John Riccitiello had …

We’re days away from learning more about how the next generation of consoles will take shape – and developers predict free-to-play games will be at the heart of it. The games industry has embraced the business model in the past few years, with publishing giants like EA and Ubisoft investing …

EA is using social media as its weapon of choice to promote Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel. We’re taking a digital approach to the marketing for Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel,” says senior product manager Kevin Flynn. Naturally we will be across the different social media outlets building …