Sony hints at portable 3D

Sony is not ruling out the use of 3D technology for PlayStation small-screen devices such as NGP, the company has said. Yet the firm told Develop that its current strategy for the PSP successor is to build a pure gaming device”. Mick Hocking, the director of Sony WorldWide Studios’ 3D …

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Skies darken above Nokia

Finnish firm Nokia, once the giant of the mobile phone scene, has sent a chilling warning to investors. The company has warned that it is likely to report no profit for the quarter ending June and that overall handset sales would be "substantially below" the €6.1bn to €6.6bn previously forecast. …

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More emulators pulled from Android Market

Google has removed a series of console emulators by developer Yong Zhang from the Android Market, while also revoking his developer privileges. The apps includeNesoid, Snesoid, Gensoid, N64oid, Ataroid, Gearoid and Gameboid,some of which had been riding high in the Android Market charts for months as paid apps. According to …

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Cryptic acquired for $50m

Atari’s has sold its Californian studio Cryptic for $50 million to China’s online gaming giant Perfect World, the company has said. Cryptic was acquired by Atari 2008 for $27 million, and went on to build MMO titles such as Star Trek Online and Champions Online. However, the studio has been …

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Namco Bandai backs 3DS with ten-month ad push

Nintendo may still be spending heavily to promote the 3DS, but now third-party publishers are getting in on the act. Namco Bandai has launched its ‘Inspir3Dgaming’ campaign to promote its 3DS games every month from June 2011 to March 2012. Ads will reach thousands of readers of specialist gaming publications …

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SixthAxis takes aim at Eurogamer

TheSixthAxis has taken a major step in becoming a mainstream games website. The firm is starting to attract advertisers to its site after racking up some 472,000 unique monthly visitors and almost 900,000 visits a month. For an indie site with no backing from a major magazine publisher, we’re hugely …

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