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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. …

Dev contest begins today and will last for the next nine weeks

Jagex and OM on how to meet the daunting task of voicing an MMO

Microsoft will use tonight’s England vs France clash at Euro 2012 to give its Halo 4 marketing a significant kick-start. The TV premiere of the live action Extended Halo 4 E3 trailer will be shown at half time – or around 5:45pm – on ITV1 and ITV1 HD. It depicts …

Move paves way for introduction of computer science