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Distributor Realtime will now deliver Blaze accessories to retail. The company will handle products such as Blaze’s range of Sega-licensed consoles. Realtime Distribution’s purchasing director Julie Darrington said: The growing popularity of ‘old school’ titles, coupled with the increasing demand for portable gaming, means that we expect the Blaze Mega Drive …

Media firm Computec is offering one million Euros of investment to the winner of its Make The Game competition. The German company has challenged UK studios to design an innovative new browser game, with up to €250,000 offered in royalty fees alone for the best title. Winning developers will also …

Joint sales of Pokemon Black/White reached 1.08m copies on their first day of release in the US, Nintendo has announced. The numbers make it the most successful day one ever for a new Pokemon title in the territory, beating the previous 780k record laid down by Diamond/Pearl in 2007. Black/White …

Google’s mobile operating system Android grew 1,580 per cent year-on-year to 7.9m units in 4Q 2010, according to data from IDC. The Western European mobile phone market grew 3.2 per cent year-on-year to this quarter, with shipments of smartphones increasing to 25.6m units, 99.4 per cent higher than in 4Q09. …

There are two ways you can react upon reading a typical gaming outcry in the mainstream media. You can cry foul. Or you can take the piss. Or maybe we should instead just plain ignore it? We’ve had a discussion in the office this morning. My erstwhile editor-in-chief thinks that …

It has been confirmed that Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior VP of marketing and PlayStation network Peter Dille has left the company. Dille spent eight years at SCEA before heading to THQ in 1999. He then rejoined his former employer in 2006. A replacement has not yet been named, nor …

Even if hackers do succeed in circumventing the security measures included in Nintendo’s 3DS handheld, there are indications that a nasty surprise lays in store for those who do. Kotaku reports that Japanese retailer Enterking has stated that it will not be accepting any 3DS units that have been used …

Windows and Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has promised that its PC service Games for Windows Live will "continue to get better". Speaking to CVG, Microsoft’s senior producer of interactive entertainment Kevin Unangst told CVG that the service "lacked fantastic games" and had endured what he called a "rocky start". …

Japanese publisher Sega has released its first ever Facebook game – Sega Play Baseball. The title marks a new chapter in Sega’s new digital strategy that was born following the significant restricting at the company announced last April. The free-to-play game lets players create, customise and manage their own baseball …

Adobe has released a conversion application that it says can allow Flash games to play on iPhone for the first time. The move is the latest twist in a long-standing rift between Flash owner Adobe and smartphone giant Apple. The Mac group has always blocked Flash from its hugely popular …