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QV Software (QVS) has acquired the distribution rights to Dead Island for Australia and New Zealand. The controversial Techland-developed game will be one of QVS’ biggest ever releases. CEO Paul Elliot said: As a company, we take pride in aligning ourselves with market leading publishers and exciting brands and products. …

Activision will release the remastered Monkey Island titles as a boxed bundle this September. The publisher is continuing its work with LucasArts to bring the Monkey Island Special Edition collection to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. It will contain The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 …

While the industry’s platform holders continue to sell the motion control revolution to gamers, one of the sector’s top execs has admitted that he doesn’t like it. Personally, while there’s some great experiences on Move, and there’s some great experiences on Kinect, I’m not a motion control guy,” EA CEO …

Seven articles from leading audio industry figures on everything from UIs for MMOs to the latest real time lighting technologies

Nintendo’s 3DS handheld has been held back by a lack of quality launch titles, Nintendo’s president Saturo Iwata has admitted. GameSpot reports that Iwata also told investors that it is going to be problematic, once the idea has taken seed, to dispel the belief that the handheld is underperforming on …

New partnership sealed between two of the biggest firms in the online space

Katamari Damacy man moves to Vancouver to work for Tiny Speck

The surprise hit of 2011 has continued to deliver as 505 Games’ popular sports title Zumba Fitness has claimed its fourth No.1 on the trot in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s its seventh No.1 in total since the Wii version was released in Chart-Track’s 13th week …

Farmville group completes fifteenth acquisition in thirteen months

Many thought we’d seen the last of him, but Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi has finally found a project to drag him out of the gaming doldrums – indie MMO Glitch. The studio has announced via its blog that Takahashi has joined the studio. In fact, he and his family …