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Division of Activision-owned studio shut down

Following yesterday’s news that EA is working on a fifth outing for the SimCity series, dubbed SimCity Societies, news has emerged that long-term developer Maxis will not be involved in the project, CVG reports. Instead, Caesar IV developer Tilted Mill is taking the helm as the series heads in what …

The top five most popular titles played over wi-fi by the five million unique users were Animal Crossing: Wild World, Mario Kart DS, Metroid Prime Hunters and also Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, which are set to launch in Europe on July 27th. With Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Nintendo DS and …

The University of Abertay's game design competition has kicked off at three sites across Britain and Ireland.

Comics legend to provide publisher with ideas for new games

Play Ten has signed up to use Emergent's development tech for Russia's first multi-platform next-gen game.

World of Warcraft leader joins already-packed line-up of game and film/TV reps

EA has opened a new casual games division and has hired former Activision president Kathy Vrabeck to head it up.

UK team Eurocom's game adaptation of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End has hit the number one spot in the UK chart.