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Sony’s UK arm bolstered its team with three new hires. Lauren Bradley, former senior product manager for Namco Bandai, takes up the same position at SCE UK after nearly four years at the third party publisher. Sony has also hired Ben Pestell as trade marketing manager. Pestell previously handled trade …

Hundreds of users claim Steam title lacks a number of promoted features

SCEE has confirmed that 30m PS3 consoles have been sold to customers – not shipped – across European and PAL territories. This milestone was hit on Monday December 17th. This is a major milestone for us and clearly shows just how popular the PlayStation brand and products are within Europe …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog takes a look under the bonnet of the input-diverse computer

Capcom has lowered its net income predictions by nearly a third for the year ending March 31st. It had previously forecast 105,000m in net sales, 15,700m in ordinary income and 9,800m in net income. These numbers have been reduced to 93,500m, 10,000m and 9,500m respectively. The publisher admitted that while …

It’s the week before Christmas, the clock is slowly ticking towards your last working day (too slowly, in fact) and you have time to reflect on the past year. Are you where you want to be, or are you stuck in a rut? Are you earning enough? Have you taken …

Dev contest sparks Starcrossed's debut on Microsoft marketplace

Devil May Cry fans will have to head to GameStop if they want to get their hands on the Son of Sparda Edition of the upcoming reboot. Under a new deal between GameStop and Capcom, the SKU will only be available through GameStop, EB Games or Micromania in Europe and …

2 Player Productions’ upcoming documentary Minecraft: The Story of Mojang will premiere this weekend on Xbox Live. Major Nelson has announced Gold members in the US, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, France, Austria, Sweden, and Finland can catch the film in full on Saturday, December 22nd at 8 PM Eastern in …

Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley has said that 70 per cent of the company’s revenues come from PS3. We have two operating free-to-play games on PS3 right now – DC Universe and Free Realms. So we’re uniquely placed having helped to build the PlayStation Network in the first place,” …