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The first UK mobile networks have confirmed their intentions to stock the iPad 2. Everything Everywhere – or Orange and T-Mobile as most of us will know them – told TechRadar that its stores will be stocking the new tablet as soon as it arrives in the UK later this …
Read More »GDC11: ‘Game development is drowning’ – Iwata
Quantity muscles over quality for the likes of Apple and Google, Nintendo president claims
Read More »iPad 2 graphics ‘nine times faster’ than first device
Apple unveils latest tablet - 33% thinner, new 'dramatically faster' A5 chip, with HDMI output
Read More »iPad 2 launches same day as 3DS in UK
The second generation of iPad will launch in the UK on the same day as Nintendo’s 3DS. Apple confirmed the news today during one of its customary spring press conferences in San Francisco. iPad 2 lands in the UK and a number of other countries two weeks after a March …
Read More »GDC: Nintendo slams App Store platform
Nintendo CEO and president Satoru Iwata has hit out at Apple’s focus on building a large quantity of low priced games on the App Store. The industry veteran – who announced he has been making games for more than 25 years – said smartphone manufacturers don’t value video games as …
Read More »Follow iPad 2 liveblog
Tonight, Apple takes the wrappers off its iPad 2 tablet. MCV’s sister site ME is reporting live from the London simulcast of the launch event, so you can see all the key features, stats and analysis in one place (without having to watch back the entire webcast). Bookmark this page …
Read More »GDC11: Ngmoco brands NGP ‘dead on arrival’
CEO of casual gaming giant launches attack on Sony's new handheld
Read More »Ngmoco: NGP is dead on arrival
Sony’s upcoming PSP successor the Next Generation Portable will be unable to compete with Apple’s iPhone and its digital distribution portal the App Store, a leading casual games exec has warned. His thoughts echo those muttered by analyst Michael Pachter last year. I think they are hurt; I think they’re …
Read More »Smurfs’ Village hits 10m downloads
The rebirth of the Smurf continues to gather pace following Capcom’s confirmation that its free-to-play iOS title Smurfs’ Village has now passed the 10m download mark on the Apple App Store. Fellow Capcom title Zombie Cafe has also hit the same milestone. In this highly competitive market, the secret behind …
Read More »Apple confirms iPad 2 reveal next week
The rumours were true – the world will finally get its first look at the Apple iPad 2 next week. Apple has begun sending out invites to a San Francisco based reveal scheduled for Wednesday March 2nd at 18:00GMT. It is to be held at the Yerba Buena Center, which …
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