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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New IP back to winning form

2010 was a terrible year for new IP. Not in terms of quality – the likes of Bayonetta, Dance Central, Heavy Rain, Vanquish and Enslaved were amongst last year’s most critically lauded titles. But commercially new IP was a non-entity. Out of the 30 biggest sellers last year only one …

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