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Hot on the heels of Nintendo releasing a brand new piracy-fighting patch for its DSi console, Nintendo’s anti-piracy efforts have been further bolstered by the successful prosecution of a high-profile DS pirate in Japan. Kotaku reports that 38 year old Yoshiaki Asagiri has been handed a two and a half …

Industry's leading independent journalist becomes online editor of Mobile Entertainment

Gearbox Software has revealed that it may sell to other studios the right to develop a game based on the 1995 Michael Mann film Heat. The ten year-old Texan developer, currently at the closing stages of the Borderlands project, said it didn’t have the time resources to work on a …

Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that a new DS entry in the Call of Duty series will arrive alongside the console release of Modern Warfare 2 this November. Developed by n-Space, the game will include a range of weapons and vehicles, with players taking control of AC-130 gunships and will …

Develop named media partner for new conference in Germany

When it comes to in-game expansions, no-one does it quite like EA did it with Sims 2 – and now the expansion ball has begun rolling for the recently released and highly successful The Sims 3. The debut pack will be called The Sims 3: World Adventures and will be …

Nintendo’s latest firmware update for its recently released handheld revamp the DSi renders many of the market’s high-profile flash card readers unusable, according to reports. CVG claims that the new firmware stops a number of the controversial systems inoperable, including iPlayer, EZVi and AK2I. One of the main uses of …

Following the media empire’s $49 million Midway takeover, Warner Bros has chosen to name two of the various franchises it has bought along with the company. As a result of the Midway acquisition, which includes the Mortal Kombat and SpyHunter franchises,” said the group, Warner Bros now has access to …

Ideaworks3D's Julian Jones on the future of mobile gaming

MCV’s vital weekly retail digest, RetailBiz, is available to view onlineand download now. Our special six-page supplement offers an in-depth look at this week’s official Gfk-ChartTrack multiformat Top 40 – once again dominated by Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort – as well as all of the official UK single and multi-format …