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Longstanding Cambridge-based UK studio becomes latest member of UK trade body

Top Wii games more pirated than Xbox 360's, research suggests

Black Powder Media, the producer of iOS title Vector Tanks 3, has claimed that Atari has issued a number of copyright infringement claims against games that resemble anything from Atari’s back catalogue. Vector Tanks 3 is in itself a derivative of Atari’s 1980 arcade title Battlezone. Thanks to their special …

Knighthood to Apple device designer Jonathan Ive

Not only are hopes of Shenmue 3 still dead in the balance, but now the newest Shenmue title to hit the market has been scrapped. Launched in December 2010 in Japan, Ysnet’s Shenmue World was a social game for mobile phones. However, Andriasang reports that Ysnet announced its surprise closure …

But Entertainment Software Association still backs the bill

The PC version of EA and Cryek’s Crysis 2 was the most pirated game of 2011, according to TorrentFreak. Between its release in March 2011 and the end of the year, the shooter was downloaded approximately 3,920,000 times. This ranked it ahead of other PC titles such as Modern Warfare …

Three of gaming’s biggest companies have withdrawn support for America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). EA, Nintendo and Sony had all previously backed the movement but their names have since disappeared from the official list of corporate supporters. The move comes as hacker group Anonymous released a video threatening to …

Just two days left to contribute to our sweeping games industry Salary Survey

A drop in sales of 78 per cent week-on-week for the PlayStation Vita in its second week of sale in Japan has seen sales fall below that of its predecessor the PlayStation Portable. Andriasang reports that Vita sales fell from 325k to 72k – that’s fewer than all of the …