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Spil Games new report highlights the ongoing rise of the online gaming space

Kids spend too much time indoors watching TV and playing games BLAH BLAH BLAH. Let’s cut to the chase. The headline of this press release reads as follows: "One in five schoolchildren can’t tell the difference between a wasp and a bee, a study reveals today." A cutting edge study …

Rovio, PopCap and Backflip games all secretly use â??supercookiesâ?, paper claims

Muzyka and Zeschuk awarded for their â??emotionally engagingâ?? projects

A new version of water-themed digital-only action outing Hydrophobia will arrive on Xbox Live tomorrow for just 800 MSP – that’s 400 MSP cheaper than the first time the game was released. Dark Energy Digital’s aquatic title received a mixed reaction from critics, averaging a rather underwhelming 58 per cent …

Registration still open for eventâ??s third annual outing

US consumers who purchase any new Windows Phone 7 will receive a free Xbox 360 game. Microsoft launched the promotion to help drive sales for its new mobile operating system, which launched last month. So far, sales have been slow. As part of the deal, gamers can choose from one …

Taiwan tech firm Macronix has been drafted in to manufacture the cartridges for Nintendo’s 3DS, consumer blog Kotaku reports. Furthermore, the site claims that the cartridges will boast a capacity of 8GB – putting them firmly in Xbox 360 territory when it comes to the amount of data that a …

A World of Warcraft player spent an average of 21 hours per day playing the online game. The gamer was logged into social networking client Raptr while playing, which tracked their stats. Raptr found the user poured 149 hours into playing World of Warcraft during Cataclysm’s first week on sale, …

Reports suggest that a new Uncharted game is in development for the PSP2. US games publication Game Informer claims it has been told that a spin-off of the popular PS3 adventure series is due for release on Sony’s next handheld by Christmas 2011, according to CVG. The developers we talked …