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Japanese publisher Sega has released its first ever Facebook game – Sega Play Baseball. The title marks a new chapter in Sega’s new digital strategy that was born following the significant restricting at the company announced last April. The free-to-play game lets players create, customise and manage their own baseball …

New smartphone game outfit 'will remain agile with minimal overheads'

Adobe has released a conversion application that it says can allow Flash games to play on iPhone for the first time. The move is the latest twist in a long-standing rift between Flash owner Adobe and smartphone giant Apple. The Mac group has always blocked Flash from its hugely popular …

Smartphone sensation 'played 200m minutes per day'

Guitar Hero and DJ Hero may currently be rocking on with the big drummer in the sky, but fresh rumours have emerged about a further lifeline for the ‘Hero’ brand. Kotaku claims to have word from an unspecified source that Activision is currently working on Dance Hero which, as the …

Andrew Eades talks about Relentless' development future

Ubisoft has confirmed that this week’s Wii and PS3 release We Dare will carry an additional warning sticker in addition to its PEGI 12 age certificate. We Dare is intended for a mature audience and Ubisoft created its marketing campaign accordingly," the company told Cubed3. "The PEGI ratings system is …

New application converts Flash to HTML5

A record 19,000 industry professionals packed into San Francisco last week for the Game Developers Conference, its organisers have announced. The 25th edition of the event, which ran across five days last week, boasted over 650 speakers. That mass of industry professionals together hosted 450 lectures, panels, summits, tutorials and …

For some time, GAME Group has been the first to admit that it needs to reclaim relevancy and up its game in terms of hi-tech retailing. Hence its unveiling of a new five-point plan two weeks ago that will overhaul the finer points of its GAME and Gamestation brands. Why …