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CEO of casual gaming giant launches attack on Sony's new handheld

HeroEngine bundled with games dev services in Idea System package

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment Australia has appealed against the decision to ban Mortal Kombat from sale in the country. Last week the Australian Classification Review Board labelled the upcoming Xbox 360 and PS3 fighter too violent to receive an MA 15+ age rating. Australia currently doesn’t have an 18 certificate …

The surprise injunction won by LG against PS3 platform holder Sony earlier this week may have disrupted the company’s European console shipments, but Sony could yet find an easy way of shipping the hardware into the Continent. The Guardian reports that European patent laws are enforced on a country-by-country basis. …

Sony’s upcoming PSP successor the Next Generation Portable will be unable to compete with Apple’s iPhone and its digital distribution portal the App Store, a leading casual games exec has warned. His thoughts echo those muttered by analyst Michael Pachter last year. I think they are hurt; I think they’re …

The head of EA Partners David DeMartini has stepped down, it has been confirmed. His replacement is already in place – EA Games’ senior VP and COO Brian Neider. DeMartini will adopt an unspecified new commercial role within the publisher. The EA Partners division is responsible for teaming EA with …

EA and Bigpoint have announced a ‘strategic relationship’ to distribute certain titles from within EA’s Play4Free online platform. The first EA title that will be featured on the Bigpoint network will be Lord of Ultima this March. "I believe that the gaming industry is starting to fully appreciate the shift …

Dietrich Banschbach, director of EMEA SSG Scale Influence at Intel, offers some advice on making the process as smooth as possibleâ?¦

SCE tech outfit's toolkit to optimise workflow and iteration for studios developing for Next Generation Portable

New game engine add-on to support Xperia Play and Tegra tablets, and enable porting of iOS titles