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Two American gamers who were the lucky winners of EA’s Mass Effect 3: Space Edition contest have found themselves in a spot of legal bother. Kotaku reports that video makers Michael Davis and Miguel Droz stumbled across a downed Mass Effect 3 weather balloon in the Arizona desert. Upon realising …

Publisher 505 Games has detailed what gamers who pre-order Sniper Elite V2 will receive for their troubles – an exclusive chance to kill Hitler. An exclusive single player mission called Assassinate The Fhrer in which gamers are given the chance to pop a bullet into the leader of theNational Socialist …

'We are very much exploring ways to bring our games to a bigger audience', says Jenova Chen

Tools to bring extra online functionality such as multiplayer matchmaking and cross-platform gameplay

Streaming games service OnLive has joined forces with the 14th Annual Independent Games Festival to promote some of the games expected to star at the event. Beginning today and running until March 11st, US and UK OnLive users can play a selection of 16 games that are either IGF nominees …

Demos of 16 IGF award nominees to be made available for next two weeks

Sony has announced that total worldwide sales of the PlayStation Vita have now passed 1.2m units. The device was launched in Japan on December 17th 2011 with the European and North American release following on Feb 22nd. Combined software sales across retail and the PlayStation Network have passed 2m units. …

Global software sales hit two million across retail and digital

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The southernmost Nordic nation is home to a strong retail market, where games are sold in everything from specialists and hypermarts to bookstores and indie music chains. But the high tax rate makes it a challenging market for companies without the capital to support them. Denmark is just as complex …