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Warren Mills will leave Google for a role at mobile commerce firm Weve at the end of the month. Mills was Google’s industry manager for entertainment. At Weve, which is a joint venture between mobile operators EE, Vodafone and O2, he will assume the role of entertainment partnerships manager and …

Wildman crowdfunding campaign stopped with only 50 per cent of target goal achieved

Members of the GMB union will tomorrow (Feb 13th) stage a number of demonstrations across nine of Amazon’s UK depots. Retail Week reports that the dispute concerns staff wages, which are 6.20 an hour – one penny above the UK minimum wage. Disquiet about the pay rates has intensified since …

Xbox Live grows to 46 million subscribers as users clock up 18 billion hours of entertainment in 2012

Microsoft has proudly announced that the Xbox 360 has now sold 76m units worldwide. Amazingly, the machine has been the best selling console for 24 consecutive months in North America, fending off new hardware launches such as 3DS, Vita and Wii U in the process. On top of the console …

New company to focus on creating interactive content and live event programming

Swedish developer SimBin, best known for the GTR games, has released a new free-to-play game titled RaceRoom Racing Experience. Pegged as being more than a game”, the RaceRoom experience is spread across three destinations – a game, a content store, and a motorsports portal. SimBin’s past games have been known …

First masters in games development in London to be accredited

Fresh rumours about Microsoft’s Next Xbox suggest that the machine will not operate unless the latest version of Kinect is connected. That’s according to Kotaku, which has word from anonymous source SuperDaE. He’s the fella who last year made a name for himself trying to sell a Durango development kit …

DisneyUTV Digital’s games have amassed 200 million downloads on the Nokia Store, the company has announced. The new landmark comes just nine months after the company announced that it had crossed 100 million downloads on the Nokia Store, which mostly comprises of Java-based games designed for India’s massive feature phone …