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Last week the games industry lost one of its founding fathers with the sad news of Jack Tramiel’s passing. Here, Zattikka president Tim Chaney recalls the legacy left by the founder of Commodore… In early 1982 I responded to an advertisement in The Grocer for Regional Sales Executive – Consumer …

Smartphones are the industry’s fastest-growing gaming platform – but one that is off limits to video games retailers. The only way for the High Street to grab a slice of the 7m spent on Angry Birds Space, the millions of dollars invested in Smurfs Village’s Smurfberries or the countless other …

EA will release Crysis 3 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in 2013, it has confirmed. The blurb describes it as the premier sandbox shooter experience of 2013”, suggesting an experience more akin to the first game than the 2011 sequel. Indeed, that’s an assumption supported by the first batch …

EA returns as publisher; Wii U edition not mentioned; Steam edition unlikely

A survey from Playr2.com has claimed that as many as 36 per cent of parents check the age restrictions of games their children are playing. Of that 36 per cent, 55 per cent claimed that in their opinion age restriction on games didn’t matter”. 51 per cent of the respondents …

Activision has released a live action trailer for its upcoming console and PC release Prototype 2. His family murdered, his men dead, and himself infected, James Heller has nothing to lose,” the video’s blurb, published by IGN, reads. Watch Heller seeks his revenge against Blacklight and Alex Mercer in this …

A brand new 320GB Red PS3 console will be released in the UK at the beginning of May. As well as the high-capacity console it will also include a red Dualshock 3 controller. It can currently be pre-ordered at three retailers. Amazon is asking 249.99 for the machine, which it …

Company now has local support offices in nine countries

Developer Starbreeze has claimed that the recent instability at retailer GAME hurt” the sales of its recent shooter Syndicate. Syndicate was released in late February and was only temporarily stocked in the UK’s leading games retailers GAME and Gamestation following the collapse of terms with publisher EA. Although EA is …

Fast growing company becomes first UK social games studio on London Stock Exchange