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Peter Driessen outlines the social gaming giantâ??s strategies for user engagement

Rockstar’s crime solving new IP L.A. Noire holds onto the top spot this week, despite dropping 43 per cent in sales. It held off competition from Codemasters’ Dirt 3, which had to settle for No.2 on the podium. The racer beat its predecessor’s launch period and sold best on Xbox …

In a week likely to be characterised by endless rumour, the latest points to a possible Xbox 360 price cut that could be announced at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. The talk stems from an ad spotted by VG247 for the US retailer Target which lists the Xbox 360 250GB and …

Social studio Sava to begin hiring immediately

The successor to the PSP will have its memory capacity halved as part of Sony’s bid to cut retail prices, a new report claims. An unconfirmed rumour in circulation suggests that the NGP will come packaged with 256MB of RAM, as opposed to the 512MB flaunted by Sony when the …

May 31st deadline missed as network is tested to its limits

Sony has said that the PlayStation store will return in a number of key territories by the end of the week. The territories in question are America, Europe and Asia, although not in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea. "We have been conducting additional testing and further security verification of …

I don’t often get the chance to start a piece with a quote from Episode IV so I wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity. So. Call of Duty: Elite. Activision’s premium or not-so-premium online service addition to its powerhouse brand. You’re desperate to read about it, right? Well, sadly …

Loss-making studio acquired by Chinese MMO specialist

Sony’s Next Generation Portable – or NGP – is looking like it could be renamed PS Vita. Alleged images of a pamphlet show the device with a ‘PS Vita’ logo at the bottom of the console, while branding on the leaflet also carries the new name, reports Games Pundit. The …