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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 …

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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 …

The personal details of around 1.8m North American and Japanese customers of Square Enix could have been compromised in a recent web hack, the publisher has admitted. A server containing details of 1m Japanese members and 800k North American users of the Square Enix Members service was accessed in the …

Zynga will later today finally go public, and is will end the day valued at around $9bn. That will make it more valuable than gaming heavyweight EA, which predates the firm by 25 years. When the US stock exchange opens later today Zynga will open at $10 a share, valuing …

Bethesda has now shipped in excess of 10m units of its fantastic RPG title The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim worldwide. No firm sales figures have been released, though the publisher adds that the number represents some $650m in sales. Valve has added that Skyrim is now officially the fastest selling …

Retailer EB Games has contacted many of its Canadian customers saying that the 3G-ready version of the PlayStation Vita has been delayed in the country. It had been due to arrive in February alongside the US and European releases, but will now not arrive until April. Further speculation blames the …

Vita will suffer a horrible, premature death” if it doesn’t open up to multiplatform accessibility, Bossa co-founder Henrique Olifiers has claimed. Olifiers said that the UK studio would not develop games for consoles because of their closed systems, and believes manufacturers would suffer in the long run if they did …