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Angry Birds studio wants to be 'as big as Disney'

Generation Media takes a look at why more games TV advertisements are longer than ever, with a year-on-year comparison. The chart below demonstrates how advertisers of games and consoles have changed the length of their communications from 2010 into 2011.The most obvious change has been in the use of longer …

Fantasy RPG fastest selling title ever on Steam

CD Projekt only taking action against users it is '100 per cent' certain have illegally downloaded the title

Customer names, phone numbers and e-mails may have been stolen

$100 million MMO currently 2nd most popular free title on Steam

Electronic Arts has completed the restructure of its UK PR team ahead of the New Year. The department will still be led by head of PR Shaun White, who has been at EA for over six years.But White will now be supported by two new PR managers: James Bruce and …

In the first week since it officially relaunched, GamersFirst MMO title APB Reloaded has attracted 3m users. It’s a great start for a game that suffered the most brutal of failures when it was initially released last year. The game was seemingly left for dead in September 2010 when, after …

Biggest public offering from US internet company since Google in 2004

Kindle e-book readers are apparently the hot gift this Christmas with Amazon reporting that the firm sold a million of the devices every week. The world’s largest online retailer also said that the Kindle Fire remained the top selling product on Amazon.com since it was introduced 11 weeks ago. Amazon …