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The cost of making a 3D game for Nintendo’s 3DS is significantly higher than doing the same on either the DS or PSP, production studio Marvelous Entertainment has claimed. 1UP reports that the company estimates that the cost of making a 3DS comes in at between $600k and $1.8m. By …

IGA Worldwide has announced that Ed Bartlett has left the company. He leaves his position as vice president for Europe at the in-game advertising firm to pursue other interests. During his time at IGA, he secured deals with leading publishers such as EA, Valve, Codemasters, Sega and Atari, and helped …

As well as claiming second spot in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood has also claimed a new record for the series. With sales of over 200,000 units in its first week, Brotherhood can officially lay claim to enjoying the strongest ever …

Ruffian Games' Billy Thomson looks at cloud gaming and the future

Less than two years after it was released on Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced that it is to close many of its dedicated support features for strategy title Halo Wars. Specifically, the next title update for the game will implement measures designed to accommodate the closure of the HaloWars.com website. …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops is today celebrating its second week at No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it successfully fends off the advances of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which claim second and third place …

After the most traumatic year in the chain’s history, rental and entertainment retailer Blockbuster is bursting back into life in the US with its first nationwide advertising campaign since 2007. In September of this year Blockbuster’s long and drawn out decent into bankruptcy was finally confirmed. The deal it eventually …

The CEO of Activision’s parent company Vivendi has stated that in Call of Duty: Black Ops, Treyarch has made a better game than Infinity Ward ever has. We have broken our own record. I am very, very pleased,” Jean-Bernard Lvy told investors at a Morgan Stanley conference this week, as …

Xaitment CEO Andreas Gerber discusses the latest iteration of its pathfinding tech

Three weeks ago first images leaked (pictured) of what gadget blog Engadget said was definitely the ‘PlayStation Phone’. Sony – despite a momentary off-message flap saying the images were fake – has remained tight-lipped about their veracity. Until now, that is. The CEO of Sony Ericsson – Sony’s joint venture …