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Moshi Monsters platform team lead Ben Burry and ex-NCsoft head of community Jen Bolton also head to London outfit

Bayonetta is a modern Japanese classic. As long as you played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version – a port of the Xbox 360 code – was handled by an in-house team at publisher Sega. The result was a release dogged by framerate and control issues. The biggest failure …

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FIFA 12 was one of the best video games ever made. And improving on it must have been a nightmare. But it’s a challenge that the EA Canada team has most definitely risen to. On the face of it, FIFA 13 appears very similar to its predecessor. The game modes …

Cable companies look to stream triple-A titles from publishers such as EA straight to TV

A new vulnerability has emerged that can instantly wipe the data stored on some Samsung smartphones that use the TouchWiz UI. The Verge reports that the seemingly innocuous HTML code has been shown to affect both the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy S II and at least some network variants …

PlayStation Pioneers created to support small UK developers

Upcoming Hollywood outing The Hobbit is to get the free-to-play game treatment. Warner has revealed a pair of titles – The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth for mobiles and Hobbit:Armies of the Third Age for web browsers. Both are due for release in autumn of this year, with the film itself …

And to think, you thought Ubisoft was brave to take on the anti-DRM brigade… David Icke has lashed out at Sega over its refusal to allow him to use a track from Medieval: Total War II in an upcoming stage tour. Who is David Icke, you ask? Well… He was …

The money spent on games may be dwindling, but the time spent researching them certainly is not. A new Google whitepaper entitled ‘Understanding the modern Gamer’ says that desktop searches for top tier” games in the ten months before and after release have increased 20 per cent year on year. …