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Microsoft has failed in a bid to renew the trademark for Killer Instinct. The Killer Instinct IP debuted in 1995 when Midway debuted Rare’s fighter in the arcades. It was later ported to the SNES and Game Boy. A sequel followed in 1996. Rumours of a resurrection of the franchise …

More than 2 million has been pledged to UK creators on Kickstarter. The crowdfunding servicelaunched in the UK a month ago, and so far 2,069,164 ($3.33 million) has been pledged. Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler and data engineer Fred Benenson released data about its first month in ablog post. 45,799 backers …

Amazon’s digital movie and TV service LoveFilm has today arrived on the Nintendo Wii. A Wii U versions is said to be coming soon”, though no official date has yet been announced. Membership starts at 4.99 a month. Existing members of the service can start using straight away for no …

A US judge has thrown out Motorola’s attempt to ban the Xbox 360 over an alleged patent dispute. The BBC reports that Motorola was attempting to claim $4bn a year due to an alleged breach of its connectivity and video-coding patents. The judge argued that the patents have been recognised …

Developer that found fame on Facebook now devotes most staff to mobile platforms

It will be impossible to draw any meaningful conclusion from the Wii U launch until the New Year, but that hasn’t stopped some quarters of the press adapting an almost instinctively negative position. But in the face of hasty conclusions, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has praised the company …

Shared center of games design going ahead after successful Kickstarter campaign

'We were not perfect. We made mistakes, but third-parties had a hand in our failure'

Despite never making it to market, the ill-fated Star Wars Battlefront 3 has caused a public dispute between Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis and an anonymous LucasArts employee. "It felt like we had turned a corner as a company," Ellis told GamesTM of the game’s development. "We had had a …