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Award-winning Frima Studio receives massive employee training investment

Japanese publisher Square Enix has announced a brand new action title for the PSP called Lord of Arcana. The title sees players being plunged into the dark depths of the underworld to fight vast and powerful creatures of legend in their quest to obtain the power of Arcana”. Combat is …

Jeremy Wigmore has been promoted to VP of publishing for EMEA at Codemasters. Wigmore joined Codemasters in 2008 as general manager for UK and Australia and has overseen the launch of Ashes 2009, Dirt 2 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Wigmore previously worked as Atari’s UK boss. He will handle …

The president of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has told rival Nintendo to quit criticising the use of 3D glasses and instead spend more time promoting the overall 3D market. I have hope that they have a broader perspective with 3D,” Yoshida told IGN. If you really want a big …

Publisher EA has announced a second delay for the Medal of Honor beta on Xbox 360. Early access to the game on PS3 and PC has already entered Phase 2. However, with the FPS preview due to hit Xbox 360 this week, unidentified issues” have held up its arrival once …

Indian games giant Gameshastra has established a foothold in Europe with a new office in London. The European team is headed up by industry veteran Martin Ogden and will help the firm expand its digital publishing and outsource services on an international scale. We’re really looking to establish ourselves in …

The beloved classic platformer Super Mario World could be revamped for 3DS. The notion cropped up during an IGN interview when a reader asked Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto what he would have changed when developing the original SNES version. Well, you know, actually a lot of the ideas that I …

Though it has pledged that it won’t strip any existing features from PSN for those who don’t subscribe, Sony is believed to be on the cusp of announcing its first big exclusive PSN Plus functionality. Technologizer dug up some details about the upcoming version of TV streaming service Hulu that’s …

Middleware firm makes major move into casual and digital download markets

Metroid: Other M will be released in the UK this September. The release window was confirmed by a trade ad from Nintendo in the latest issue of MCV, due out tomorrow. This puts the game’s European debut within weeks of its US launch, confirmed as August 31st during Nintendo’s E3 …