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A surge of punters picking up a brand new iPhone 4S in October saw Apple sell more smartphones than all Android smartphone makers combined, according to new Kantar Worldpanel research. iPhone sales had been down in previous months with the Apple faithful holding off on picking up an iPhone 4 …

Robomodo hopes to raise $35,000 for XBLA project

Bobby Kotick has warned the markets to expect shortages of its innovative kids title Skylanders this Christmas. The game uses augmented reality technology to place real-life monster figurines into the game. This of course leads to a secondary trade in the figures for Activision. It is currently available on Xbox …

Well, if nothing else EA can at least take this as proof that Activision is nervous about Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA’s upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic is seen by some as the first real contender to World of Warcraft’s subscription MMO crown. Not that Bobby Kotick agrees. …

Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has become the first game developed in the West to receive a perfect 40/40 score from weekly Japanese consumer games mag Famitsu. The publication asks four reviewers to score each title out of ten, with these then added together to form the overall total. It’s …

In its first week of release, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the single best selling product at supermarket giant Sainsbury’s. It’s one of the starkest illustrations yet of the changing landscape of the games retail sector in the UK. The Telegraph reports that the retailer also predicts …

In celebration of its first birthday in Japan, Famitsu has published firm Japanese sales data for Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect. And the truth is the numbers aren’t very good. In total the device has sold 114k at Japanese retail. That represents fewer than one in ten Xbox 360 owners …

The CEO and MD of xaitment talks about the future of the company, and of AI

Microsoft’s second generation of Kinect hardware is so accurate that it is able to read the lips and interpret the facial emotions of users. That’s according to details from Eurogamer, which has gone live with a host of revelations about Microsoft’s future plans. It says that Kinect 2 will come …

New motion sensor 'able to detect emotions through voice and facial expression'