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With England about to embark on its Euro 2012 ‘adventure’ in just a few short hours, games charity GamesAid has kicked off its own Euro 2012 competition. All you need to do to take part is donate 10 at GamesAid’s JustGiving page and then email your answers to the questions …

Recently unveiled tech to be a single app

Ubisoft has stressed that the impressive Assassin’s Creed III has only been made possible due to the annualised release of the franchise. Some critics had attacked the publisher’s decision to elongate the Assassin’s Creed II world with two subsequent console releases – Brotherhood and Revelations. "We have multiple groups now …

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Telkomsel and MLW Telecom revealed as the first customers for Antix Game Player

A new report from DFC Intelligence predicts that digitally distributed games will account for 66 per cent of total overall games revenue by 2017. It also predicts a significant expansion in the overall games software market, which it believes will grow from $52m now to $70bn in five years. Interestingly, …

Latest crowd-funding hit headed by American author Neil Stephenson

UK tech firm Antix Labs is to establish its eponymous games distribution platform in Indonesia. Antix has been beavering away on the Antix Game Player for years. Its vision is to create a new format that allows gamers to play, share and even copy games with friends whatever the device …

It’s three weeks and counting at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. It holds on to the top spot despite a 48 per cent week-on-week fall in sales. It joins an exclusive club of titles …

A Reddit tipster has seemingly leaked the first details of Mass Effect 3’s ending-altering DLC. User dertemp6698, who Kotaku credits as trustworthy owing to previous accurate leaks, published the following press blurb for the content: An expanded ending for Mass Effect 3. Additional scenes and an extended epilogue reveal the …