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Gamescom is to open up pre-sales for tickets to registered attendees, it has announced. Those wanting to attend the European games convention will be able to reserve tickets starting from April if they register to the Gamescom newsletter by March 17th. Official ticket sales will begin in May, and those …

Personal dividends from 2011 shared amongst employees

Crysis developer to discuss 'next-generation DX11 graphics and tools upgrades'

Attendees must register to event newsletter by March 17th to reserve spaces

Up-and-coming Swedish gaming blog Svampriket is introducing a new section, called Junior, aimed at younger children – and their parents. The strandis a development of their previous video blog series, Mamma Pappa Barn, where children played games and talked about them with an eye to the younger demographic and their …

Shares in Zynga jumped ten per cent yesterday on news that the social games giant is to launch its own games portal away from Facebook. The City’s interest in Zynga’s new venture drove its share price from $13.43 to $14.49 at end of trading. Zynga.com, which will launch in beta …

12 jobs lost as studio reorganises to focus on RuneScape and Transformers Universe MMOs

You can expect much more in the way of Resident Evil games on the 3DS, if the latest comments from Capcom producer Masachika Kawata are anything to go by. The first RE title for the system, Resident Evil: Revelations, was released on 3DS in January and has clearly met the …

Bioware and EA hosted their own version of the Mass Effect 3 Space Edition event in Stockholm last night. After three days of puzzling together clues on gaming web site Gamereactor, fans gathered in front of the Stockholm Globe Arena for the final piece of the mystery late last night. …

Social networking giant's share price climbs ten per cent