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GAME Australia has introduced a revamped reward card scheme which has ruffled a few feathers down under with (pictured) risque advertising. The new scheme, dubbed GAME ON, rewards consumers with 10 points per $1 spent, with 1000 points being claimable as $2 back on in-store purchases. Ben Grant, marketing director …

Australian indie developer Dinoroar Interactive has announced today the launch of its new iOS game Tapmatic. The game is a memory-based game of duplication, where players are tasked with recreating an increasingly difficult coloured sequence of button presses. Aileen Bautista, founder and CEO of Dinoroar, said: "This game isn’t for …

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UK production firm to focus on other media

We look at the year-on-year change in overall advertising activity for video games on TV from March 27th to August 21st. This is provided by specialist communication firmGeneration Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. This week we also explain whether there has been a year-on-year change in the …

The freshly announced Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of 2007 PC shooter Crysis will be digital-only releases. The game, which was only announced this morning, will cost 1600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live Games on Demand (around 13.70) or 15.99 on the PlayStation Network. It will differ from the original …

Former Rockstar Vienna dev Jurie Horneman responds to Criterionâ??s front-page Develop feature

Having topped the UK charts for two weeks now, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC title Deus Ex: Human Revolution, publisher Square Enix has announced that it has now shipped 2m copies of the game. It was first released in the US on August 23rd with a European release on August …

Outspoken indies Team Meat will no longer have a commercial partnership with Microsoft, a co-founder at the studio has said. Edmund McMillen has criticised the Xbox manufacturer for its lack of support during production of the 2010 XBLA hit Super Meat Boy. I don’t think we’ll work with them [Microsoft] …