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Blur vs Oasis. Tyson vs Bruno. Now Battlefield vs Call of Duty. The best bitter rivalries in entertainment and culture are the ones most fiercely fought, but where one can’t survive without the other to validate it. Or one can’t survive without the other to generate coverage for it. At …

O2 has announced it will begin stocking the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play at the start of June. The PlayStation-certified phone was originally due for release on April 1st, but the mobile phone provider delayed it after discovering a number software bugs. It turns out these will be fully resolved very …

Staff at French studio Eden Games have today gone on strike, in a protest against company layoffs, according to reports. Studio management have warned that 51 of Eden’s 80 studio staff are targeted for redundancies, it is believed. An unnamed Test Drive Unlimited 2 developer issued a statement to Gamasutra …

Startup BeamItDown Software has announced that it is shutting down its iFlow Reader service, which sold e-books through its iOS app, which could also be used to read them. The company has posted an explanatory messageon its website with some stinging criticism for Apple. "Apple has made it completely impossible …

The inaugural event of TIGAâ??s newly formed Casual Games Committee takes place tomorrow.

Sony Ericsson has claimed it is not concerned about news that its initial offering of PSOne games on its Xperia Play mobile games have sold in very low numbers. Using Android data, PlayStation Lifestyle reports that the best selling game to date, Destruction Derby, has yet to break the 1,000 …

Square Enix has drastically revised its predicted losses for the fiscal year ending March 31st. Describing the change as ‘extraordinary’, the company has increased its forecasted loss from YEN 1bn to YEN 12bn (around 90m). Sales and income are expected to come in slighty below expectations, too. The change was …

Having already suffered one delay, Nintendo has confirmed another change of plans for its 3DS digital downloads portal. Back in January the platform holder had indicated that the store would be ready to launch alongside the handheld in March. This was later changed, with a May arrival pencilled in, thanks …

Develop examines the future of Valve's flagship tech, and discovers more about the studioâ??s unique socialist culture.

UK's biggest studio beats the industry's finest to claim quiz glory