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A Japanese Apple nut claims to have constructed a lifelike iPhone 5 pieced together from genuine parts sourced from the Apple supply line. The shape isn’t a huge departure from the iPhone 4, although the all-glass back has been replaced with a silver panel. It also carries the rumoured 19-pin …

Games advertising company Intergi has opened a new European HQ in London. It’s the company’s first overseas office and becomes its fifth, joining with its New York, LA, San Francisco and Florida bases. The London HQ will be lead by UK and European sales director James Haley. He’s joined by …

Freemium model will force changes to conventional games in future, says David McCarthy

Consumers should look at the other features the console has to offer such as its tablet controller, says Tekken director

A potentially very serious issue with the PC DRM employed by Ubisoft seems to have left many gamers susceptible to hackers. Rock Paper Shotgun reports that a problem with the Uplay/DRM infrastructure of a number of Ubisoft titles that allows websites to plant potentially malicious code onto the PCs of …

The wait for the Dawnguard DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim may not be as long as some had feared. Microsoft famously secured a 30-day window of exclusivity for all Skyrim DLC. Dawnguard – the first add-on content for Skyrim – hit Xbox Live on June 26th, meaning that …

Next-gen console to feature Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU and 8gb memory, says source of leak

Freemium will become the dominant force throughout the global games industry, leading experts claim. Digital specialists at EA and BBC have both told MCV that free is the price that consumers want to buy their games. And that the model – which is currently popular online and on mobile – …

Dishonored visual design director more interested in the project than the company

With the nation high on the triumph that was Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony, Sega is celebrating chart triumph with London 2012: The Official Video Game climbing to No.1. It’s the first time it has claimed top spot in the five weeks it has been on sale. Weekly sales were up …