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Namco Bandai and Cartoon Network will teach over 300,000 kids about the solar system with the help of hit cartoon character Ben 10. A full curriculum-mapped series of lesson plans are now available for teachers to use. They are based on Namco’s upcoming video game Ben 10: Galactic Racing, and …

Dates arranged for studio visit

Comscore data claims the Apple device has driven 97 per cent of tablet traffic in the US

Modern Warfare 3 has its London Underground level, and now it looks like Battlefield 3 has found its point of controversy. The game’s listing on the website of American rating’s body the ESRB says that: "In one sequence, a restrained character’s throat is slit (off-screen); in another, players shoot police …

Kinect was named Gadget of the year at this year’s T3 Gadget Awards. The Xbox 360 motion accessory also took home the Gaming Gadget of the year, in a ceremony that also saw Samung’s Galaxy S II beat the iPhone to the phone of the year prize. Another gaming winner …

£50 for triple-A mobile releases, while digital editions get a 20 per cent discount

Credits can now be bought through smartphones

Each studio given $250,000 to build mobile and social games

With a little over two weeks to go until The Games Media Awards 2011, in association with Grainger Games, it’s time for us to remind you exactly how modern we are. We were going to communicate with you all by printing words on bits of paper. These were then going …

Sony Pictures has reportedly paid $1 million for the rights to produce Steve Jobs’ biopic, after the Apple founder died earlier this month. Former Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson wrote the original biography, which was sourced from interviews with Jobs, his family, and others that knew him. Tributes have …