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Mobile game developer Firemint has acquired Australian studio Infinite Interactive, the group has confirmed. Financial terms of the buyout were not discosed. Infinite Interactive is perhaps best known for its Puzzle Quest series, and will now develop its titles under the Firemint name. Its founder Steve Fawkner said we now …

Puzzle Quest creators now part of the Real Racing group

Britain losing ground on the world stage, suggests publisher boss

Royal recognition for the Football Manager man

Gamers aged six and under have been advised to avoid the 3D functionality of Nintendo’s upcoming new handheld the 3DS according to a health disclaimer posted on the company’s Japanese website. The platform holder says that "looking at 3D images for a long period of time could have an adverse …

Kinect creators PrimeSense Immersive Natural Interaction has revealed a new Kinect-like motion camera for the PC. Called the WAVI Xtion, much like Kinect it will allow users to control an array of core functionality through gesture and voice, with the express intention of "extending PC usage to the living room". …

Famed hacker and all-round cyber warrior George Hotz has allegedly made public key information that could potentially allow homebrew developers to get any code they like running on PS3s – including pirated games. ‘GeoHot’ has published the console’s ‘root key’ – a code that the PS3 uses to authenticate any …

Miles Jacobson, the studio director of Football Manager developer and Championship Manager creator Sports Interactive has been awarded an OBE in the most recent New Year’s Honours list for services to the games industry. "Thank you to all those [who have congratulated me)," Jacobson wrote on the SI forums. "It …

For an online publisher the idea of letting your readers have their say is, to be brutally frank, a little scary. But sometimes it’s you, the reader, that very much makes the story. If it wasn’t for you and the comments you leave we’d be very much less the community …