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Sony has proposed the closure of Leamington Spa outfit Bigbig, which recently finished work on Little Deviants for Vita. Sony’s Cambridge division is also to be restructured. The studio is to partner with Netherlands outfit Guerilla Games, likely in a downsized capacity, to build Killzone games for PlayStation Vita. Sonysaid …

Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has raised its sales projections for its fiscal Q3 by €50m after achieving record Christmas sales. It expects to generate €650m in revenues in its third financial quarter of 2011-2012. This is around eight per cent more than its initial estimate of between €580m and €620m, …

Streaming games service Gaikai will become and out-of-the-box feature in some of LG’s future 3D TV releases. The company’s Smart TV range will include Gaikai as a menu option, meaning that users will be able to play high-level PC games directly through their sets. Thanks to the internet, you can …

Leamington Spa unit Bigbig to be axed; Cambridge outfit reorganised

Word, Exec and other work programs set for Apple tablet

Nominees given free passes and exhibitor discount

One of the most anticipated games for Nintendo 3DS, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, has finally got a UK release date. Konami’s title will be released on March 8th. The box art has also been revealed. Gamers had hoped initially that the game would arrive alongside Nintendo’s handheld in …

This month’s 1.4 patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will finally address the PS3 stutter bug, Bethesda has claimed. It made the assurance on Twitter. A fix for the game, which was released worldwide on November 11th last year, was released in early December, but failed to address the …

London devs TeePee signed to build Facebook portal and Android app

Microsoft has confirmed that the functionality changes made to the upcoming PC version of Kinect won’t be available for the Xbox 360 model. Chief amongst the changes for the new Kinect is the addition of Near Mode, which allows the camera to detect and react to objects as close as …