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Gamescom 2012 is still five months away but already the show has garnered a healthy level of support from across the globe. Companies from 21 countries are already signed up, covering territories such as China, Iran, Israel, Korea, Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Singapore – as well as big hitters such as …

Social studio steps away from internal game development

Treasury 'delivering on promise to help UK businesses' says Osborne

IGN Entertainment has partnered up with Reset Media AB to publishIGN Sweden, which launched last week. The new site will mix Swedish language editorial material with localized material from IGN’s English language teams in the US, UK and Australia. Its editor-in-chief is games media veteran Tobias Bjarneby and the editorial …

Apple’s brand new iPad 3 has been jailbroken by the Apple hacking community just hours after its release. ZDNet reports that no less than three separate jailbreaking methods are now publically available, with custom code already up and running on iOS 5.1. Once ‘jailbroken’, an Apple device is able to …

­­Develop asks the middleware firm's VP of product management Marc Stevens what it has in store for the industry

Ustwo, the makers of hit app Whale Trail, have signed a publishing deal with Penguin division Pearson. Penguin plans to launch an e-book starring the game’s main character, Willow the Whale, in October, with traditional books to follow in 2013. This is the first time a brand that started as …

Multiple parties said to be interested in new mobile and Facebook sensation

The future of games on the High Street in in danger and thousands of workers face an uncertain future… so let’s all cash in, right? That’s clearly the attitude of dating website dateagamer.co.uk, which has seized upon GAME’s misfortunes to try and promote its own business. The company has allegedly …

Pay attention Daily Mail – this is how you troll the games industry. In what can only be described as a remarkably stupid cover story in today’s issue of The Sun, the Murdock daily has sensationally claimed that Call of Duty is being used by terrorist to plot attacks. Islamic …