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NPD has signed up to contribute to next week's London Games Conference, offering a free report to attendees.

Siri, the ‘digital assistant’, that Apple bundles with the iPhone 4S,has been hackedto work on earlier Apple devices including the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. iPhone hacker Steven Troughton-Smith demonstrated theported Siri in a video, adding that Siri was completely functional on the iPhone 4 despite the single core processor. …

Japanese gaming giant Sega Sammy Holdings has reported a fall in both revenue and profit for the six months ending September 30th. Revenue fell to 1.2bn, a decline of 29.9 per cent. Net profit fell 83.7 per cent to 30m. Unsurprisingly the Japanese earthquake was the chief culprit in the …

Digital games developer Arkedo Studio has unveiled a new partnership” with publisher Sega. The first game to be born of the deal will be called Project Hell Yeah! Arkedo’s previous titles include Nintendo DS pair Big Bang Mini and Nervous Brickdown, as well as the Arkedo Series on the Indie …

The PlayStation 3 is to receive HD re-works of two Resident Evil light gun titles. VG247 reports that Wii titles Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles are to be bundled together in a PS3 SKU designed for the PlayStation Move accessory. As well as improved graphics, the site speculates that both …

Unreal dev kit adds iOS effects and Facebook integration

Publishing giant also releasing new Facebook games based on TV series CSI and House

This week we start with a new vacancy at Rockstar North... we hear they may be working on something big

Theme-park simulator coming to iPad and Android

With its release still nearly two weeks away, a pirated version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is reportedly doing the rounds in America. VentureBeat reports that a single disc two of the PC version of the game was stolen from a Californian shipping warehouse. It speculates that tight …