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Valve’s recent release and critical hit Portal 2 has now sold in excess of 3m copies. The number comes from Gabe Newell himself and was revealed at the Games for Change event at New York yesterday, according to Joystiq. It’s understood that it covers both boxed retail and digital sales …

Having very much taken the back seat to PSP in the weeks that have followed its debut in Japan, Nintendo 3DS is finally back at the top of Media Create’s Japanese hardware charts. The machine sold almost 41k units last week, significantly up on the 25k sold the week before. …

Publishing giant 'to spend over $1 billion'

The Metropolitan Police has charged a hacker it arrested earlier this week with five offences under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act. As previously reported by MCV, the 19 year-old Essex teenager in question is indeed Ryan Cleary. He is accused of constructing and distributing bots designed to …

We profile People Can Fly, Crytek, Ninja Theory, Evolution Studios, Guerrilla Games, Playdead and The Creative Assembly

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 …