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Newcastle outfit in recruitment drive to strengthen team for major release

UPDATE: UKIE has issued a statement to clarify that the July 23rd date could change. The process for getting PEGI into law has been long-fought and hit various important administrative delays, so the association is warning that the legislation involved may impact proceedings. UKIE CEO, Jo Twist said: "The latest …

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Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall is the latest celeb to star in Nintendo’s TV ads. Cattrall – who played the promiscuous Samantha Jones in the long-running US sictom – appears in a fresh ad for Super Mario 3D Land, which arrived on retail shelves last November. The video’s …

Consider voice acting from the design stage, advises RuneScape studio Jagex and audio outfit OM

QA and support outfit snaps up industry veteran

Emilian-Walter Lorenz to spearhead development of global product and marketing departments

Five student-made games will be published on PlayStation Vita by Grasshopper Interactive later this month. The titles were chosen from a selection of nine submissions from the Game Campus Festa student development programme – a special scheme that Grasshopper operates in conjunction with Japanese schools. Ideas for the games were …

American trade body The Entertainment Retailers Association has urged against a possible ban on sales of the Xbox 360 in the US. An International Trade Commission judge last month recommended that the machine should no longer be imported into the US and all sales of unsold stock to be blocked. …

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