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Rovio Mobile might be seizing headlines for the two million downloads of its Angry Birds game on Android this week, but the company is targeting other smartphones too. The full Symbian version of Angry Birds has gone live on Nokia’s Ovi Store, and is available to buy now. Yes, that’s …

In what is almost a given ahead of the release of any big title in the modern market, it has emerged that copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops are currently being distributed on the internet. The games industry has for years been trying various methods to try and prevent …

Multi-national publishing behemoth EA is facing the wrath of The Imps after a gaffe in the recently released FIFA 11 saw League Two team Lincoln City hitting the pitch with last year’s strip and sponsor on show. We are aware of this error and we apologise to the club, sponsor …

Bigpoint, the games portal site and developer, has reached 150m registered users, an expansion of fifty per cent on the 100m users it had in January of this year. The firm, which is seeing a daily new user registration of around 250,000, ascribes its growth to an increasing number of …

Redundancies highly likely as operations move in-house

Adobe software quietly removed from all new Mac machines

What’s Ubisoft’s strategy going into Q4 and 2011? You’ve got a fairly diverse set of games on the slate ahead of you.The number of players is increasing tremendously and so it’s very important to have games for all those new audiences. But at the same time gamers are now buying …

The success of Move and Kinect hinges on cultural acceptance, says Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. In fact, the head of the French publisher says that Sony and Microsoft’s tech will each dominate one of key games territories, setting up the potential for a Kinect-oriented US market and a Move-driven Europe …

THQ will splurge 2m to reach kids, family and casual audiences this Christmas. The money is being spent on its Great Games, Great Value campaign, which will promote ten of the publisher’s family-friendly titles in the run up to Christmas. These games include Megamind, Truth Or Lies, The Biggest Loser, …

Move over Mario – James Bond is going to be the top dog on Wii this year. Activision claims the new GoldenEye will rival hits like Mario Galaxy 2, Just Dance 2, Wii Party, Donkey Kong and Epic Mickey. Our expectations are that GoldenEye 007 will be one of the …