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It’s new hardware, but possibly not as you expected it. Former platform holder Sega has launched a new range of machines in Japan… that attach to male urinals. Wired reports that the new devices, called ‘Toylets’, have been rolled out for testing at a number of locations in Tokyo. Each …

The Mac version of the Apple App Store has this afternoon gone live around the world. The online portal, highly similar to the iOS version in terms of function and presentation, comes bundled with Mac OSX update v10.6.6 It is said that 1,000 free and paid-for apps are already available …

Meet Wonky Woo, from senior dev staff to family man with his eye on the app market

Scottishgames.net editor Brian Baglow offers insight

70 per cent royalty rate on offer for app devs

PES 2011 arriving on the mobile platform

Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that The Tomb Raider Trilogy will exclusively hit PS3 on March 25th in the UK. The SKU includesHD remakes of both Tomb Raider Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversay as well Tomb Raider Underworld, which has previously had an HD release on PS3 and Xbox 360. …

MMO operator eyes mobile games space

StrawDog's XBLA game to hit the net with Turbulenz

Global games retail giant GameStop has reported a 3.4 per cent like-for-like sales boost for the nine weeks ending January 1st. Overall the retailer saw 5.4 per cent growth compared to Christmas 2009. Revenues for the period hit $3.02bn. Hardware sales were up 7.4 per cent year-on-year with Microsoft’s Xbox …