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Electronic Arts could be the latest company to dedicate an entire studio to Kinect and motion control game development. The publisher announced today that it will move its Salt Lake team to a new 20,000 square foot building in the Utah capital. EA Salt Lake was in another life the …

Siliconera is reporting that Firemint’s hugely popular line-drawing puzzle game Flight Control is heading for a PSN release as a PlayStation Move compatible title. The claims come as part of the confirmed launch date of September 15th for Move in Korea. Two other PSN Move games have also been announced …

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There are significant doubts about whether the success 3D has seen at cinemas can translate to the home. For one, consumers have only just upgraded to HD, and it’s going to take something big to encourage adoption of another large, flatscreen TV – especially as 3D TVs currently cost over 1,000. …

James Cameron’s Avatar was a watershed moment for entertainment. It generated $2.73 billion at the box office – 90 per cent of which came from 3D screens. And almost overnight the TV, film and video game worlds rushed to embrace the new 3D phenomenon. In February, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony …

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Ubisoft has become the No.2 publisher in UK and Europe as it announced game sales almost doubled year-on-year. The publisher now has a 9.5 per cent share of the games market in Europe and 11 per cent in the UK. Comparatively, in the US Ubisoft is No.4 publisher with a …

Disney is planning a big-money move into the social games space, according to TechCrunch. The investment and technology site reckons that Disney plans to spend big on the firm, with VentureBeat claiming that up to $600m could be used for acquiring Playdom, one of the major Facebook and social games …

Microsoft has revealed that it sold 10.3m Xbox 360 consoles in the year ending June 30th – down from the 11.2m it sold in the same period the year before. Console unit sales were up in the quarter ending June, however. 1.5m were sold in the period compared to 1.2 …