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Upcoming XBLA title Trenched has been blocked from release due to a trademark dispute with a board game. Eurogamer reports that the game clashes with trademarks held by an abstract Portuguese board game Trench. The trademark was filed by Trench’s designer Rui Alpio Monteiro in 2007 and covers both board …

The UK High Street is at breaking point and landlords must step in to avert another ‘rent day’ disaster, says the British Retail Consortium. The message comes following last week’s collapse of Habitat and Jane Norman on ‘rent day’ (the quarterly time when rent is due) which has claimed many …

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Capcom has defended the lack of a reset option in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. The news that players won’t be able to delete their saved game file and reset their progress caused alarm among fans and retailers earlier this week, with many suggesting this had been done to prevent …

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Disney is closing its UK games development studio the publisher has confirmed to Develop this morning. Black Rock, the racing studio it bought from Climax in late 2006, will close after five years of Disney ownership. 40 remaining staff will be made redundant – the studio had already laid off …

An in-game microtransaction-based Marketplace has been introduced to Sony Online Entertainment’s PS3 and PC MMO title DC Universe Online. Massively reports that the store is a little sparse at the moment, with only Proto Repair-Bots and Vault Tickets available. There’s been little indication of what else is to come, but …

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One of the most celebrated Xbox Live Arcade titles of 2010 is finally spreading its wings onto new platforms. Developer Playdead has confirmed that puzzle platformer Limbo is due for a digital release on both PS3 and Steam. Having previously said that the title wouldn’t hit PS3 or PC "this …