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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform has been subject to continual speculation about poor handset sales in recent months, but one analyst thinks the company is set for big success in the coming years. Pyramid Research’s latest smartphone forecasts report includes the prediction that by 2015, Windows Phone will overtake Google’s …

The latest ‘BrandZ’ study by global brands agency Millward Brown puts Apple and the top, supplanting last year’s top dog Google. It says Apple’s attention to detail and diversifying product range enable it to behave differently from other consumer electronics makers. Peter Walshe, global brands director of Millward Brown, told …

Some elements of PSN will be back online far ahead of the May 31st date circulated this morning, a spokesperson for SCE UK has told MCV. In his press conference on May 1st, boss Kaz Hirai already stated that PSN would receive a phased roll-out over the period of one …

The May issue of Develop is packed with great features, including an in-depth look at the unique creative culture at Valve

In a fresh blow for PSN’s security worries, Sony has omitted over the weekend that it was forced to remove the details of some 2,500 PSN users that were posted online by hackers. Reuters reports that the details stemmed from a 2001 product sweepstake and included names and partial addresses. …

Who are the world’s best games studios? You’ll get to find out next month when our sister magazine Develop publishes its list of the most successful developers, the Develop 100, next month. And this time out listing comes courtesy of none other than Metacritic. The must-read review score tracking site …

Closely watched list of the world's best games studios is published next month

Following rumours that the next generation of Xbox hardware has made it into the hands of some developers, analysts have stated their doubt that Microsoft would be looking to launch a new machine in the near future. "The Xbox 360 has incredible momentum and it would baffle me as to …

A report in The Financial Times has claimed that "two veterans" of hacker group Anonymous have admitted that some of its members were likely behind the PSN outage. It is said that "an individual or handful of supporters" took it upon themselves to further Anonymous’ ‘OpSony’ campaign by hacking into …

Sony hopes to bring the network back online 'by May 31st'