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International children’s sport and play charity Right To Play has secured a sponsorship programme from Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft for 2012. Right To Play works to improve the quality of life for children in some of the most impoverished places around the world. The deal sees MS handing over …

EA, Ubisoft, Bigpoint, Take-Two and Bethesda already on board

The Italian video games market was worth $1.09bn in 2011, and more than half of this was generated by software sales. Italy has suffered slight declines in sales of hardware, software and accessories since 2010 but the nation is still home to a healthy retail landscape. Italy is the fourth …

It was E3 2005 when Alan Wake was first unveiled. The ambitious story-driven thriller was from Remedy, the studio behind Max Payne. A series it had just sold to Rockstar for $45m. After Max Payne, we could have sat on a beach sipping cocktails for quite some time,” Remedy’s head …

It’s not an Apple launch without a decent faulty tech story – and this one sounds like a big one. Users have taken to Apple forums to complain of what seems to be an excessive amount of heat emanating from one corner – the lower left hand – of the …

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 …