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Rumours are pointing to a possible partnership between Finnish mobile giant Nokia and Microsoft that could see the latter’s mobile phone OS Windows Phone 7 installed on Nokia smartphones in the future. The New York Times reports that Nokia’s shares have grown for four straight days as the whispering continues …

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LG are to unveil two glasses-less 3D devices at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona next week – an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet likely to be known as the G-Slate, and a 3D display smart phone called the LG Optimus. They are not the first to introduce glasses-less 3D …

Publisher Activision put no pressure on Treyarch to break the sales records shattered by Call of Duty: Black Ops’ predecessor Modern Warfare 2. Not that it stopped the game doing just that, of course. People don’t come by our offices and say ‘Hey, this game sold this many map packs, …

It’s November 10th 2009, and the world has just seen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 become the most successful entertainment launch ever. Overnight its publisher Activision cemented itself as one of the biggest games companies in the world, while Infinity Ward turned into one of the industry’s most influential …

Given that the new online world is being transformed by creative technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google and video games companies, it seems incredible that there is an absence of computer programming in schools. The UK has gone backwards at a time when the requirement for computer science as a …

The Performing Rights Society has bamboozled retailers this week by saying indies must pay to cover music licence fees for game pods. PRS polices the use of copyrighted music in public places and now thinks demo pods running games that play licensed music will also come under its remit. Several …

People Can Fly’s cheeky marketing stunt for its upcoming shooter Bulletstorm has hit a significant milestone online. As confirmed via the Bulletstorm Twitter feed, Duty Calls has now hit 1.25m downloads since its release last week. The game is an unashamed spoof of Activision’s Call of Duty and is full …

With the 3DS looking to hike the accepted High Street RRP of handheld gaming software when it launches in the UK next month, Nintendo of America president has attacked the low-price mentality promoted by Apple’s App Store. I actually think that one of the biggest risks today in our industry …

Despite a drop of revenues across every territory for EA in its Q3 2011, Europe has emerged as the most resilient region for the publisher. Net revenues for Europe were down just two per cent year-on-year in Europe. By contrast, Asian revenues were down 21 per cent and North American …