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Sony is pouring 1.5million into an Easter campaign for PlayStation Vita. It is the second big-budget ad push for the handheld following the console’s February launch. Sony says its new school holiday campaign will appear in areas with high footfall. The Easter campaign will consist of high impact outdoor media, …

Warrior's Lair production underway elsewhere

New report claims the next-gen system will fight piracy with constant internet requirement

Face it – this won’t stop until we finally see the machines at either E3 this June or E3 2013. Today’s report comes from VG247, which claims to have word on the Next Xbox’s specs from an assortment of anonymous sources. Firstly, the site takes great delight in stressing that …

A report from Philadelphia’s Drexel University has claimed that users’ credit card details can be obtained from ‘wiped’ Xbox 360 hard drives. This is supposedly achieved with what are described as basic hacking tools”. Researchers were able to access files and folders on a 360 HDD that had been through …

Insomniac, PopCap and BioWare direct laid-off Vigil and Relic employees to job listings

Games and consoles TV advertising has experienced a 25 per cent year-on-year decline in activity from the start of 2012 to March 11th. This week we look at how the biggest campaigns of 2012 so far compare to 2011’s. The combined number of TVRs in the Top Ten is currently …

Yorkshire studio working on new instalment of the flagship IP

Redundancy packages established as SOCOM group bids farewell

Draw Something DAUs up more than 700 per cent since beginning of March