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US web entrepreneur and blogger Jason Calacanis has been spending the morning tweeting details about Apple’s new tablet device, which he claims Apple gave him ten days ago. All of this is open to speculation, of course, and should be taken with a rather large pinch of salt. The real …

Marvelous Entertainment will make dramatic cuts to the wages of its key executives and staff, reports suggest. Company CEO Haruki Nakayma will reduce his wages by 77 per cent, with directors hit by a 25-43 per cent salary cut. And according to news site Siliconera, other executives at the firm …

Ubisoft has revealed Red Steel 2 will be available bundled with the Wii MotionPlus add-on when it arrives this March. The publisher has also confirmed the game will be released in Europe on March 26th, three days after its launch in the US. The MotionPlus SKU was revealed in Ubisoft’s …

Going gets tough for the multimedia outfit as CEO salary is cut by 77%

PS3’s days as a piracy-free platform are under threat with the news that famed hacker George Hotz has publicly released the details of the exploit he uncovered over the weekend. Hotz had previously claimed to have found a way to gain read/write access to the console’s system memory and HV …

LocalizeDirect gets financial backing as it launches its new translation tool

Anonymous source says the outfit is left with a skeleton crew after escaping closure

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With Fabio Capello’s England team targeting success at this summer’s World Cup, EA has officially announced its licensed video game tie-in – FIFA World Cup South Africa. It will be released in Europe and Asia on April 30th for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PSP. The North American release date …

International game creation event just days away