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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 …

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops could stand to benefit the successful launch of Halo: Reach in the long run. That’s according to Lazard Capital’s Colin Sebastien. The analyst claims the early sales figures for Microsoft’s latest shooter suggest strength for the core market, which bodes well for similar titles …

Big online portals at work with cloud-based service

Potential partners reluctant to buy the studio; redundancies made; APB bid to relaunch

Platform holder Microsoft has claimed that Xbox 360’s ongoing sales gains have heralded a mid-generation leadership change” that puts its console at the front of the pack. Analysts are telling us that we’ve broken all their models,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. They say there’s never been …

505 Games has announced Cooking Mama World: Babysitting Mama for the Wii. The game allows young girls to care for a child – with a twist. Babysitting Mama comes bundled with a life-sized baby doll peripheral that houses the Wii Remote. Players have to perform all the tasks expected of …

Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed. Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3m units this holiday,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. Our key indicators are feedback from …

Codemasters’ racer Grid will debit as a coin-op arcade game this autumn. Via a deal with Sega Amusements, the UK publisher has developed a two-man cabinet of the game. The content has been developed at Codemasters Studios. Grid won a BAFTA for best sports game in 2009. Codemasters says this …

Long-running UK television soap Coronation Street is to become the first such programme to get its own dedicated social network game. Corrie Nation is to initially run on Facebook and ITV.com, and has been created in conjunction with the television show’s production team. After the November 1st launch, other platforms …