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Sony has confirmed that PSN will this afternoon go down for maintenance "for several hours" in what it describes a "crucial step" in the return of the PlayStation Store. It has also repeated its pledge to have full PSN services back online by the end of this week. "Starting soon, …

Lodsys denies claim that its licence threats are meritless

A short new trailer for the long-awaited Star Wars Kinect game has gone alive ahead of its anticipated reveal and Microsoft E3 press conference on Monday night. The video, which can be seen below, sees the feisty R2-D2 getting familiar with a Kinect camera. For more details on the game, …

The slowdown of games sales and increasing competition in the games market has led many indies to branch into other areas. But MyMemory went the other way. The technology and memory specialist began stocking video games in a bid to increase its revenue. Our main business was originally flash memory. Obviously …

Teams from 70 universities whittled down to select few for respected Abertay Dundee contest

You’ve grown to a chain of six stores. What do you attribute this success to? Probably the staff, the buying team, working closely with publishers, keeping a tight rein on finances, ambition, and just a general passion for the industry. You make it sound easy. How simple is it to …

The Fluid Pixel director on why he's heading to the industry conference in Gateshead

Russian social developer building outside of Facebook

THQ is spending 1m to get sci-fi lovers excited about Red Faction: Armageddon. Cinema advertisements will run from May 30th to July 7th, with spots appearing around screenings of X-Men and Green Lantern. A new Red Faction film, subtitled Origins, will air on TV channel SyFy shortly after the Xbox …

Survey of 500 app creators claims two-thirds have lost money from promotion ban