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German studio appoints Bartol Ruzic to lead browser, mobile and serious games operations

Mega Bloks is celebrating ten years of Halo with a new line of figures. The toy firm will bring Series 3 Micro Action Figures to retailers aswell as new brick-style vehicles and structures from the series by theend of September. The goodies – which range from 1.99 Hero Figure Packs …

SCEE chief Jim Ryan says a sub-90 PSP will grow the platform’s audience and draw in the younger consumer. A new-look PSP was unveiled at Gamescom last month. As well as a fresh design, it omits the wi-fi functionality and has a new budget price. You will see the audience …

Xbox is kicking off its Gears of War 3 campaign with a bang – literally. The third instalment in the 13m selling shooter series – out Tuesday, September 20th – will receive a huge marketing campaign consisting of store takeovers, print activity, first-of-its-kindlive TV ads and special graffiti art made …

Both GAME and Gamestation have stopped selling pre-owned versions of older Xbox 360 consoles, it has confirmed. The move affects Xbox 360 Core and Arcade models as well as older devices that don’t offer HDMI support. Consumers will still be able to trade these devices in in-store. The move has …

PEGI classification system extended to smartphone programmers and developers

Networking event focused on new app opportunities

Square Enix has confirmed details about the first DLC that its Eidos Montral studio will release for chart hit Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Called ‘The Missing Link’, it details the events of a three-day period in which protagonist Adam Jensen went missing in Human Revolution. He is tortured by Belltower …

COD XP: Activision has teamed up with Microsoft to create a special Xbox 360 bundle for the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The package includes a MW3-branded Xbox 360 console with a 320GB hard drive. Not only is the console designed to match the game’s battleworn theme, …

First the HP TouchPad was abandoned before it even got going, and now it is claimed that another high-profile iPad 2 rival is having a tough time on the market. An executive at electricals firm Lenovo has claimed Samsung sold just 20,000 units of the 1m Galaxy Tabs it shipped …