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Downloaded over 100m times, and beloved as much by gamers as improbable figures like David Cameron and Margaret Atwood, Angry Birds is a true phenomenon of gaming’s new age. It started as a smartphone game, is dirt cheap at 59p, and has shifted over 2m in plush toy merchandise. The …

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Why PS1 games and physical buttons are ready to capture a new market

With mass lay-offs, studios dropping like flies and mega-franchises imploding under our feet, it’s tempting to declare that there’s never been a worse time to get into video game development. The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) fuelled further negativity back in January by estimating that software piracy – that …

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Though we’re no closer to knowing whether or not EA’s long-rumoured Syndicate revamp is actually in the works, the series’ original creator has said he’d love to get involved with the mystery project. Speaking to CVG, current Microsoft Game Studios boss and the founder of Syndicate developer Bullfrog Peter Molyneux …

EA founder 'planned to defeat his taxes via bankruptcy and continue living high life'

Online retailer Amazon has stolen a march on Apple and Google by launching a cloud music service for PC, Mac and Android devices. Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Amazon Cloud Player for Android all went live this morning in the US, and will let people upload …

Rockstar's Rage tech thought to have been exploited

A San Francisco judge has rejected Trip Hawkins’ plea to use personal bankruptcy to cancel $20m of tax obligations. According to a Forbes blog, US District Court judge Jeffrey S White has upheld an earlier bankruptcy court ruling related to tax shelters Hawkins used to shield the personal wealth he …