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Trial offer as EA tries to build buzz around its Steam rival

InComm Europe has done the impossible: bridged the gap between digital content and physical retail. European product and marketing director Simon Osgood explains how the High Street is taking the next step… The focus and key buzz this past year is digital – and this is reflected in the discussions …

Tubby Games has outlined the marketing push it hopes will take Now! That’s What I Call Music: Dance and Sing to the top the charts. The campaign will come in the form of two competitions. The first – which Tubby says is worth an estimated 100,000 – lets consumers enter …

After attending a recent lunch at the House of Commons, Richard Hill-Whittall has some doubts

An entire MMO has been wiped from the internet after the game’s server was damaged beyond repair, according to translated reports. It has emerged that Japanese firm Sankando had shut down its MMO, called M2, late in October to perform emergency maintenance on a set of servers. Despite efforts by …

November 30th deadline for submissions

iOS edition goes live tomorrow; Android and Apple customers can mix online

Sony is to release the three titles included in its Sly Cooper HD Collection as individual downloads on the PlayStation Network, Siliconera reports. The retail SKU contained three games – Sly Racoon, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves. All three have been given a full …

It’s something that’s unthinkable today, but back in 1985 Shigeru Miyamoto’s team was developing two titles at the same time. The first was the multi-million selling behemoth, Super Mario Bros. The other arrived a year later and was designed to be a more immersive, deeper video game experience. A game …

Andy and the team outline the basic gameplay concepts for their debut project - but coding it is going to be tricky...