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Warner Bros’ next instalment in its Batman Arkham series will be a prequel featuring several of DC’s biggest superhero characters, a new report claims. Variety claims that the game, which will be set before both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City and will feature a selection of stars from a pool …

Panini has bolstered its trading card game portfolio with hit Nintendo title, Kid Icarus Uprising. Over 40 million people in Europe have played the Nintendo game, with over 100,000 units already sold. There are 1.4m members on Club Nintendo and 12,000 Kid Icarus card packets sold out on the site …

Develop Conference: 'I wish I could says there's more open mindedness in film and TV, but there's not', says John Dower

MCV has spoken to celebrity video game ambassadors before. They will tell us that the new game they’re endorsing is a ‘special one’ before feeding us pre-prepared lines on how ‘passionate’ they are about the project. They may or may not have played a video game before. So imagine our …

Oh, how things change. Tiny Wings 2 is arguably the biggest release in games this week… and it’s free! Owners of Tiny Wings should keep their eyes peeled for an update to the game. It has already rolled out in New Zealand and should hit the UK around midnight. What …

Steve Ballmer, the bullish CEO of Microsoft, has outlined his determination to stop Apple having things its own way in its key markets. Admitting that Microsoft has in the past ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation to Apple” the exec would have the world believe that …

Develop Conference: 'The company that migrates these the best will be the most successful, says Eugene Evans

For the first time ever, Android has accounted for over half of the overall smartphone sales in key global markets over a 12 week period. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says that Android’s OS accounted for over 50 per cent of the sector in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, US and Australia. …

Metal Gear Solid 4 will at last receive a patch that will introduce support for PS3’s Trophy system. Andriasang reports that the news was broken by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima in an interview in this week’s issue of Japanese weekly Famitsu. Trophies will be integrated into disc copies of …

Develop Conference: 'We now have at least a ten year gap in teaching Computer Science in the UK', says David Braben