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A clearer picture is emerging on the stormy development of The Last Guardian, as the project’s executive producer resigns to join a London Tech City studio. Yoshifusa Hayama, who had been Vice President at Sony Computer Entertainment for four years, has been appointed creative director at Newscorp owned Bossa. Prior …

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It never takes long for the industry to start whispering about the next Call of Duty – even though the latest blockbuster is still dominating the charts. Sure enough, reports have emerged that Sledgehammer Games is recruiting for its "Call of Duty development team". According to a job listing on …

Handheld raises its game with strong sales rush ahead of holiday season

Vostu pays up and agrees to alter its games

More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded through Google’s Android marketplace to date. This is only expected to grow as Android users are now installing a combined one billion users per month, according to Gamasutra. By comparison it took the Android Market 22 months to reach its first one …

Yoshifusa Hayama joins growing London studio Bossa

Social games giant Zynga has ended its legal action on Brazilian games firm Vostu for alleged copyright infringement. Zynga took legal action on Vostu in June for ‘infringement of its creative works’ including titles such as Zynga’s popular Facebook game CityVille. Now Vostu has agreed to pay a fee to …

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes the 3DS is about to cross the 3m sales mark in Japan and will reach a 4m milestone by April. Speaking to Nikkei, as translated by Andriasang, Iwata said the 3DS has regained its vigour” thanks to the price drop and major new releases such …

Skateboarding star Tony Hawk says he will be announcing an upcoming release on the day of the Spike Video Game Awards. The extreme sports legend said on Twitter: I’ll be announcing the upcoming release of something new on Saturday; the same day as the Spike Video Game Awards. Coincidence? I …