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We’ve never been given any firm sales numbers for the PSPgo, leaving the industry to draw its own conclusions about the device. But Sony has insisted that the portable has successfully met its own expectations. The PSP Go is not the PSP2. It was just a different form-factor. It’s met …

Seven temp roles remain to wind business down; redundancy complaints raised; US studio fate unknown; announcement expected

Japanese publisher Square Enix has revealed a new strategic partnership with online games giant Shanda that will see the Final Fantasy series get its first ever official release in China. The first game to get a release will be MMO outing Final Fantasy XIV, though the date of its arrival …

Retro seems to be very much the theme at the moment – following news that cult Saturn shooter Radiant Silvergun is getting an XBLA release, Sony has gone one better by announcing a brand new PSOne Import section on PSN. The new sub-store will offer PSOne games previously only released …

BBC says the Unreal firm could buy RTW IP, which was built using its engine

Nick Gibson on the meteoric rise of the Chinese games industry

Mark Cale of System 3 reveals why publishers aren't to be feared

It was MIA at E3. There was no sign of it at Gamescom. And all hope of a Tokyo Game Show reveal was scuppered this week when Sony’s press event came and went without even the faintest whiff of new hardware. So where is PSP2? By the sounds of it, …

Realtime Worlds’ administrator will scale back efforts to rescue the collapsed studio, Develop can reveal, and MMO APB will be closed. The game is still available to buy at a number of retailers. But it looks like players will no longer be able to go online with it. Administrator Begbies …

Startup iSwifter has emerged from stealth mode with a service that lets iPad users play Flash games from some of the world’s biggest games portals. The service describes itself as a ‘cloud-based Flash streaming service’, and while it works on iPad initially, iSwifter plans to roll it out to iPhone …