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Kenji Matsubara, the former Tecmo Koei CEO, is to join Zynga’s Japanese business arm. Matsubara will begin his duties on May 9th. The social studio’s current CEO of Japan operations, Robert Goldberg, will step down but is said will advise Matsubara in a consultancy role. Goldberg said he was very …

New studio emerges after staff released from Vicarious Visions

Despite its heavy investment in 3D for its latest piece of hardware, the 3DS, Nintendo has suggested that its next home console is unlikely to follow the same path. "Glasses-free is a big deal," NoA boss Reggie Fils-Aime told CNN. "We’ve not said publicly what the next thing for us …

Tomb Raider studio 'building new IP'

No specific mention of Blu-ray, yet the Xbox firm talks of its 'strive to improve product'

Nintendo has stated that its new 3DS handheld has broken all previous US hardware sales numbers for the company. However, it has stopped short of actual revealing any data, saying it won’t do so until April 14th when it will have had chance to check its data with NPD. "US …

Microsoft has begun asking US Xbox 360 owners to register for the latest System Update Preview which this year promises something of a surprise. "We are conducting an open call for US based participants for a public preview to help us prepare for an updated Xbox 360 disc format," community …

Last week saw the release of the third Angry Birds game, Rio. The game is themed around a new Fox family CG film about kidnapped birds made by the Ice Age team. But Rovio has retained creative control. We made it clear from the beginning that we don’t want to …

Store staff at GAME were sent to Tesco during last week’s launch of Nintendo 3DS in order to buy hardware and software stock at the supermarket’s reduced price. An internal document uncovered by Eurogamer shows that GAME stores were encouraged to take advantage of Tesco’s 175 offer for the new …

Apple has yet to officially confirm it, but newspaper The Daily Mail is reporting that the iPad 2 has officially sold out in the UK. At present it’s impossible to determine whether this is primarily due to (the undoubtedly extremely high) demand or more because of the wider pressure Apple …