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The US Copyright Group has been granted permission to subpoena ISPs for the details of users who have illegally downloaded movies via BitTorrent. Film companies are said to have paid ‘snoops’ to monitor BitTorrent sites by observing active torrents and capturing users’ IP addresses. TechRadar reports that around 23k individuals …
Read More »Lady Gaga agrees Zynga deal
Social games firm Zynga has inked a deal to promote Born This Way, the new album from Lady Gaga. The partnership involves a virtual ‘GagaVille’ farm in its FarmVille game, a contest in its mobile social game Words With Friends, and other elements. The GagaVille farm will let fans unlock …
Read More »Dev warns of PSN abandonment
The founder of digital games developer Q-Games has warned that Sony faces the loss of a number of loyal PSN developers if it does not take action to help those affected by the PSN outage. Speaking to Industry Gamers, Dylan Cuthbert admitted that the PSN problems had "definitely" affected Q-Games’ …
Read More »100m Android devices and counting
Google kicked off the firm’s annual I/O developers conference in San Francisco with a keynote address that hailed 100 million Android devices. Google’s senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra took the stage hailing "how much had been achieved", cheekily unveiling a cartoon Android gobbling an Apple, in reference to …
Read More »Hitman: Absolution announced
Having been rumoured for quite some time now, Square Enix has at last officially announced a new instalment in the Hitman series. Developed by IO Interactive, Hitman: Absolution is the fifth game in the franchise that first arrived in the year 2000 with Hitman: Codename 47. The most recent release …
Read More »What is LA Noire’s ‘Rockstar Pass’?
Microsoft last night released its latest Xbox Live release schedule and the inclusion of something called the ‘LA Noire Rockstar Pass’ add-on has certainly caught the eye. "In celebration of launch on May 17th take your LA Noire experience to the next level," is the only detail offered in the …
Read More »PSN ‘at least a few days’ from restoration
PlayStation customers have been told not to expect PSN to return in the coming days. "I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored," SCEE’s head of communications Nick Caplin stated. "At this time, I can’t give you an exact date, as it will likely …
Read More »Capcom introduces Smurfs DLC cap
Players of Capcom’s hit iOS title Smurf’s Village will, once having installed the latest update, find that the game has introduced a cap on the game’s micro-transactions. From this point on the game will limit users to five in-game purchases every 15 minutes. PocketGamer reports that the move has been …
Read More »WoW subscription numbers dip
Though the 11.4m subscribers to Blizzard’s world-conquering MMO World of Warcraft make for some impressive reading, it actually represents nearly a three year low for the game. The current number was revealed in Activision’s financials last night, Kotaku reports. The game reached its highest point in October last year as …
Read More »Jagex signs Herotopia publishing deal
UK independent studio Jagex has scored a global publishing deal with social MMO New York children’s media firm Herotainment. The Runescape studio will use its online games expertise to publish Herotopia, an award-winning social online game for children”. The landmark agreement makes Herotopia the second third-party game released by Jagex’s …
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