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Prostate cancer charity Movember has received a $500,000 in-game ad gift from EA Sports. It has handed the charity half a million dollars worth of free in-game ad space throughout November. The spots will appear in titles such as FIFA 13, Madden 13 and NHL 13. Movember is all about …

Virtual currency on Mobage platform brings in $700m in Japan

Founders will also not consider implementing equity funding in future, says Perry

Amazon.co.uk has predicted that Monday December 3rd will be the busiest online shopping day of the year. Known as Cyber Monday, Amazon reckons orders will peak at 9:20pm and on what it believes could be its busiest ever day in the UK, The Huffington Post reports. In 2012 Cyber Monday …

Develop investigates a new era of games financing

Japanese social games giant DeNA has reported a 45 per cent jump in quarterly revenue to $627m. Profits were up 38 per cent year-on-year at $254m. The company’s Moba-coin virtual currency also set a new high, grossing $700m from mobile games in Japan. Coin consumption was for the first time …

Publishers do not lack understanding on next-gen console's capabilities, says dev icon

THQ may have reported better than expected sales for its last quarter, but the signs are anything but positive for the troubled publisher. Sales for the quarter ending September 30th reached $91.8m, beating expectations. But that’s where the good news ends. Darksiders II sales stand at 1.4m copies, far below …

Master Chief returned to London last night for the launch of the hotly anticipated Halo 4. Microsoft splashed its biggest outdoor budget ever on the marketing campaign, as well as a huge stunt and launch party in the heart of London. Celebrity guests such as Jonathan Ross, JLS, Dizzee Rascal …

All five home console Assassin’s Creed games, plus their DLC, are headed for release as part of the Assassin’s Creed Anthology, reveals a listing on Amazon France. Anthology will include Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed II, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, and Assassin’s Creed III, plus all their downloadable content, …