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A freshly unearthed Microsoft patent entitled ‘Content Distribution Regulation by Viewing User’ will likely not appeal to fans of 1984. The idea is that Kinect (or any compatible camera source) will effectively observe users viewing content they have acquired and ensure that they are complying with the license. Breaches of …

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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 …