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Sony has confirmed that it plans to release an official PlayStation app for iPhone and Android mobile devices. The app will allow users to check their PSN Trophies, monitor the online status of friends, check out the latest news from the European PlayStation blog and post to Twitter and Facebook. …

PS3 owners still experiencing problems with the online component of Call of Duty: Black Ops have been told to hold tight as Treyarch looks to release another patch that it hopes will eradicate the issues. On Wednesday the developer released an update designed to ease the problems some are having …

It has taken a while, but GT5 is finally on shelves. Were you ever worried it wouldn’t make it this year?No. We had good conversations with Yamauchi-san and the Polyphony team at Gamescom about the milestones. And there was always very strong confidence it would be out this year. But …

Though the words ‘PSP’ and ‘two’ are yet to emerge from the lips of Sony, SCEE president Andrew House has told MCV of his company’s future plans for innovation in the handheld space. We demonstrated with PS2 that with the right value proposition, the right long-term attention and the right …

A long-term goal was finally achieved at the offices of publisher Take-Two last night – it was able to announce a year of overall profit without releasing a Grand Theft Auto title. For the year ending October 31st profit hit $42.5m. In the year before Take-Two endured a $140m loss. …

Retail will not match 2009’s sales figures, despite a Q4 sales surge. Record-breaking sales for FIFA 11 and Black Ops have helped retail beat last year’s Q4 numbers. According to MCV calculations based on Chart-Track data, retail needs to sell more than 20m units and make 313m in three weeks …

Retail is feeling the chill as Arctic weather threatens to bring the country to a standstill this week. Several big December releases – including World of Warcraft: Cataclysm – failed to hit stores in time for launch in recent weeks as icy weather disrupted key deliveries. Now games outlets are drawing …

David Braben is surprised Tim Langdell got away with so much in the first place...

Develop caught up with middleware maestros Unity to discuss the Union distribution model

IT specialists d-Studio tell us why they've joined the app market