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Zumba Fitness will be released for PS3 and Wii in February next year. The new SKUs of 505 Games’ dancing exercise game will hit shelves in the UK on February 4th. They will follow on from the original Zumba Fitness, a Kinect launch title that was released last month, and …

FIFA, Madden and FarmVille already available for new browser-based platform, with Mirror's Edge on the way

Channel 4â??s commissioning editor to run her own start-up

Aliens vs Predator studio releases social game Evil Genius

The SSX snowboarding franchise could be getting a revival this year after a three-year absence. Vancouver-based EA Black Box has been working on a new SSX game for PS3 and Xbox 360 during the past two years which will feature controls similar to Skate, according to Kotaku. A source ‘familiar …

Star Wars: The Old Republic has the potential to keep running for at least ten years. That’s according to Electronic Arts’ CFO Eric Brown, who also claims the BioWare-developed MMO won’t depend on the millions of subscribers engaged by titles such as World of Warcraft. Speaking at the UBS Annual …

Alleged missed milestones on Jumpgate project

A new version of the iPad will allegedly hit shelves as soon as February 2011. Reports suggest Chinese firm Foxconn Electronics will ship around half a million units of a revised iPad within the next 100 days. Digitimes has claimed that Apple originally planned to mass produce the new device …

Tesco has announced its third quarter results for 2010, reporting a rise in Group sales of 8.8 per cent. The supermarket giant attributed this growth to the improving global economy, with its total international sales increasing by 15.7 per cent. Non-food sales also increased when compared with the second quarter, …

Shares in the company sink 10 per cent