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We’re yet to hear what Sony’s official pricing strategy for its new PlayStation Vita memory cards will be in the UK, but if the US and Japanese pricing is anything to go by they’re not going to be cheap. US retailer GameStop (as reported by the similarly titles consumer games …

PopCap also turned down deal 'due to rumours of the company's rescinding share awards'

Notorious tenth drone 'not individually sold'

Valve boss Gabe Newell has challenged the notion that software pricing is the driving force behind games piracy. Instead, Newell insists that piracy can be conquered with a sufficiently strong service offering. "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy,” he told The Cambridge Student, as spotted by GameSpy. …

Less then ten per cent of users returning to play title every day, new data suggests

Casual games title Mafia Wars 2 has suffered an exodus of players in November. Business Week reports that having hit a user peak of 2.5m daily active users in October. However, that number has tumbled by a massive 900k players in November according to AppData. The site goes on to …

'Companies that treat talent as a commodity face severe consequences' says EA's head of HR Gabrielle Toledano

The UK Government hasmade public its response to the Livingstone-Hope Skills Review, which in February this year made recommendations to include computer science into the national curriculum. The statement from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes 85 distinct responses to the Livingstone-Hope report, which itself set out twenty …

A new report from The New York Times claims that Angry Birds creators Rovio rebuffed an astonishing $2.25bn takeover offer from Zynga in the summer. The context placed on the revelation is that potentials targets are being scared off by a ruthless corporate culture that, while serving Zynga well on …

Former Krome and Team Bondi staff working on new title