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Ã?rban Pad city generation middleware harnesses Allegorithmic texturing tech

The search is over. GAME has found its replacement for former CEO Lisa Morgan. Former Vodafone UK commercial director Ian Shepherd has stepped in as permanent replacement for Morgan. He takes over properly from June 28th – four months after he departed Vodafone for new opportunties. At Vodafone he’s credited …

Half a million consumers downloaded Doctor Who: The Adventure Games in its first two weeks. The free downloadable game was the first of its kind from the BBC, and the broadcaster hopes its success will inspire the games and TV industries to work closer together. The result is a lot …

Thomas Grové explains how Unity is ready to support developerâ??s needs for iPad app gaming.

Ubisoft will be rolling out two motion-controlled sports compilations this Q4 in order to support Microsoft and Sony’s hardware launches. The company announced Racquet Sports and MotionSports during its E3 press conference. The games have been designed exclusively for Move and Kinect, respectively. Racquet Sports will be released first, hitting …

Ubisoft has announced the latest entry in its best-selling Raving Rabbids series will be released this November. Raving Rabbids Travel In Time will be available for Wii on November 11th and sees the crazed bunnies tampering with history. A trailer shown during Ubisoft’s E3 press conference depicted the Rabbids helping …

Social gaminging platform inks agreement with SDK provider

User-generated gaming arena revealed; built across TrackMania 2 and more

Sony has revealed the UK pricing plan for its new premium iteration of PSN, PlayStation Plus. PS3 owners will have to pay 39.99 for a 12-month subscription, or 11.99 for 90 days, according to Videogamer.com. Sony claims that full-year subscribers will receive approximately 200 worth of free and exclusive content, …

Ubisoft has announced it will launch a new online community towards the end of the year that will be based solely on user-generated content. ManiaPlanet was first revealed during the publisher’s E3 press conference and unites fans of Nadeo’s Mania titles with its accessible toolset and focus on popular genres. …