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Sony’s impressive PS3 exclusive platformer LittleBigPlanet has hit a big milestone with the news that the game’s online community now stands at nearly 2m users. In addition, the number of user-created levels now available for players to download has hit 725,000. Since Media Molecule’s game launched last November, it has …
Read More »London conference to focus on digital distribution
Game downloads, online networks and the future of retail will be the focus of the ELSPA-backed London Games Conference this autumn. The single day event is being run by Intent Media, which publishes MCV, Develop, Mobile Entertainment and CasualGaming.Biz. LGC ’09: Digital Distribution & The Future of the European Games …
Read More »Rock Band and Star Trek join forces
Harmonix-owning MTV Games and movie studio paramount Pictures have announced a deal that will see EA’s music game join the Star Trek party ahead of the release of the new movie on May 8th. Players can from today register for a 15-day sweepstake to win 500 free downloads from the …
Read More »Develop Awards return this July
The Develop Awards will this year take place on July 15th, returning to the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton. Now in their seventh year, the Develop Awards recognise the innovations and successes of studios in the UK and Europe. Key winners last year came from all over the industry, including …
Read More »Perlman: OnLive critics are ignorant
With seemingly the entire games industry lining up to pour doubt over the lofty claims and aspirations of freshly revealed streaming games service OnLive, the company’s founder Steve Perlman has spoken out in defence of the company. We have nine of the largest game publishers in world signed up,” Perlman …
Read More »Now Sony voices OnLive scepticism
Sony has become the second platform holder to voice its doubts about the ambitious proposals outlined by streaming games service OnLive. Yesterday, Nintendo’s American boss Reggie Fils-Aime questioned where OnLive would source the kind of killer-games that has seen Nintendo perform so strongly in recent times. Now SCEA’s director of …
Read More »DS: The story so far
The Game Boy has seen off competition from the likes of Sega, Nokia, Neo Geo and Atari, and has made Tetris and Pokmon household names. Today, Nintendo may have dropped the Game Boy name, but its DS still holds the same principles and has managed to revolutionise the sector yet …
Read More »Gardening Mama to arrive in May
Publisher 505 Games is to release the latest title in its Mama brand, Gardening Mama, in the UK on May 1st. Available exclusively for the DS, the game sees Mama shun her traditional pans and fresh food in favour of crops and tools as players work to turn her plot …
Read More »New casual games portal arrives from AOL
Leading internet firm AOL has lifted the lid on its brand new casual games site FlytrapGames.com, which it hopes will tap into the ever-growing casual games community. The site is being run in conjunction with established games website Kikizo. It will cover everything from expansive downloadable titles to browser-based gaming …
Read More »Call of Duty enjoys DLC success
Activision Blizzard’s powerhouse franchise Call of Duty racked up yet another success at the weekend with the news that the recent downloadable map pack for World At War was downloaded over a million times in its opening weekend. The number includes all sales of the DLC on both Xbox Live …
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