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Media giant Future has merged its games and film sales and publishing departments into one entertainment division to strengthen the team. The idea behind the merger is to offer Future’s clients better access to the film and game audiences. The company has already hired two new publishers and is on …

An analyst for Taiwanese firm Concord Securities has claimed that the iPad 2 will not boast the headline feature of its smaller brother the iPhone 4 – a high-resolution ‘retina’ display. The reason, it is claimed, is that Apple has ordered between 4m and 4.5m units of the device to …

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One of PopCap’s biggest hits, colourful tower defence title Plants vs Zombies, is coming to PS3. The conversion is being handled by Sony Online Entertainment, the studio which also bought fellow PopCap title Bejeweled and Peggle to PS3. PvZ is one of six new titles SOE is bringing to PS3, …

Dundee developer hopes to keep troubles in the past as it begins self-publishing drive

A new study from Canalys claims that in the final quarter of 2010 Google mobile OS Android overtook Nokia’s Symbian platform to become the best selling smartphone OS in the world. Shipment of Android-based devices hit 33.3m worldwide in the period. By comparison, Symbian device sales hit 31m. Apple iOS …

Newly-released Maratis engine is free and open-source

Next generation PlayStation handheld unlikely to host Android games

If December’s much-publicised gutting of the PlayStation 3’s security systems is proof of anything, it’s this: Where software is concerned, there is no such thing as an unpickable lock, and piracy-prevention strategies that amount solely to locking the door are doomed to failure. Until a few, short weeks ago, the …

At the time of writing you can’t speak to anyone in the industry without touching on 3DS. Everyone has an opinion. People want to discuss the price, the launch line-up, or the quality of last week’s presentation – but not so much the device’s core USP. Perhaps it’s easy to …