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Casual publisher PopCap has announced that it will in December release Bejeweled 3. An assortment of expansions aside, it’s the first proper sequel to 2004 hit Bejeweled 2. The Bejeweled series has sold over 50m units across the globe and has been played by an estimated 500m people for a …

â??I am not sure I would say tax breaks were poorly targetedâ?? says Treasury director

UK studio highlights need of publishing support for independent developers

Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix has released a brand new voice-controlled RPG for the iPhone 3G/3GS/4, iPad and latest iterations of the iPod Touch. Called Voice Fantasy, the game allows users to summon monsters simply by speaking into the device or using the recorded voices of your friends. Characters are …

Studio boss Karl Hilton in talks over franchise revival; team has â??phenomenal enthusiasmâ? for project

Publishers MTV and Microsoft have recalled all copies of Kinect title Dance Central in North America. The reason? An unspecified misprint in the owner’s manual”. Microsoft has become aware that an update that needs to be made to the product manual (i.e. printed materials) included in the game entitled Dance …

Publisher THQ has reached an agreement with WWE that will see the company’s WWE vs Raw game promoted in conjunction with both WWE TV shows, live events and future DVD releases. 40 live WWE events will play host to game kiosks where fans can sample the latest release WWE Smackdown …

Lib-Dem MP Tom Brake, whose party fully backed tax breaks, supports Coalition u-turn

Indie PC hit Minecraft has passed the 500,000 purchases barrier as the one-man project continues to take the gaming world by storm. In the last 24 hours alone the game has sold nearly 10k copies. The Minecraft stats site is currently down, meaning the very latest numbers aren’t currently available. …

Canesta Inc. core business incorporated into Xbox firmâ??s assets