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Deal between social giants expires May 2015

NaturalMotion and Jagex to also host speaker sessions

EA has announced that it has sold 2m copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic since its release in December, attracting 1.7m active subscribers in the process. Unique daily log-ins for the game stand at around 1m per day with an average playtime of approximately four hours per day. EA …

EA CEO John Riccitiello has spoken positively about the firm’s last financial quarter which its position as the No.1 PS3 and Xbox 360 publisher in the world in 2011. This was the kind of quarter a CEO loves to report,” he told investors. It is one which generated our highest …

Mark Zuckerberg set to be worth $28 billion

Mobile sales climb 17% to $70million; PopCap revenues up a third

GFACE enables users to stream 'console quality' games through their browser

Every Electronic Arts game over the past two years has included an Online Pass, but the upcoming Syndicate reboot will buck this trend. This is because the publisher wants more players to enjoy the online multiplayer modes – the sort of feature EA usually locks with a one-time code included …

Global social network Facebook has filed for a $5bn initial public offering which could value the company at $100bn. Facebook filed for the IPO with the US Securities & Exchange Commission yesterday, which will soon see the company float on the stock market and its shares made available to buy …

BioWare game picks up 1.7 million subscribers in just over a month