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Rumours suggest big-money swoop could be made by Zynga, EA or DeNA

Gloucestershire studio has ambitions to expand further

Mobile games giant Dena secures exclusivity deal with Epic

iPhone, Android and browsers all supported with new 'drag-and-drop' game creator

Sony is offering a free 180-day trial of its Q Music Unlimited service. It offers users the chance to sample the ad-free internet radio style experience with a library totalling 7m tracks. The deal is open to PS3 owners who haven’t previously or aren’t currently subscribed to the service. PS3 …

Sony’s PSVita will sponsor this year’s Games Media Awards in association with Grainger Gamess as Gold Partner. The firm will use the event to promote its upcoming handheld to the UK’s 200+ elite games media at what has become the big night of the year for the UK’s specialist press. …

New features include geometry tessellation and parallax occlusion mapping

Namco Bandai and Capcom may be competitors in the video games market place, but a shared need to find success out of their home country of Japan has brought the pair together. That’s according to Namco’s VP of label and brand strategy Hiro Ochiai, who was speaking to MCV about …

EA has announced that FIFA 12 will be released on September 30th in the UK and Europe. It will arrive a few days earlier in the US – on September 27th. The PC version will release alongside the PS3 and Xbox 360 SKUs and EA has promised that, unlike in …

Mochi Media parent company preparing to launch its first iPhone games in 2012