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The first round of speakers for this year’s Edinburgh interactive festival have been revealed. Speaking at the event will be GREE’s European business development and developer relations boss Kyoto Matsushita, Flurry’s European MD Richard Firminger, CloudMade’s VP of community Christopher Peterson and Tapjoy’s European MD Paul Bowen. Industry stalwart Ian …
Read More »Microsoft partners with charity Right to Play
International children’s sport and play charity Right To Play has secured a sponsorship programme from Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft for 2012. Right To Play works to improve the quality of life for children in some of the most impoverished places around the world. The deal sees MS handing over …
Read More »New iPad in overheating error message worry
It’s not an Apple launch without a decent faulty tech story – and this one sounds like a big one. Users have taken to Apple forums to complain of what seems to be an excessive amount of heat emanating from one corner – the lower left hand – of the …
Read More »Strong early support for Gamescom 2012
Gamescom 2012 is still five months away but already the show has garnered a healthy level of support from across the globe. Companies from 21 countries are already signed up, covering territories such as China, Iran, Israel, Korea, Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Singapore – as well as big hitters such as …
Read More »iPad 3 already jailbroken by hackers
Apple’s brand new iPad 3 has been jailbroken by the Apple hacking community just hours after its release. ZDNet reports that no less than three separate jailbreaking methods are now publically available, with custom code already up and running on iOS 5.1. Once ‘jailbroken’, an Apple device is able to …
Read More »How NOT to cash in on GAME’s struggles
The future of games on the High Street in in danger and thousands of workers face an uncertain future… so let’s all cash in, right? That’s clearly the attitude of dating website dateagamer.co.uk, which has seized upon GAME’s misfortunes to try and promote its own business. The company has allegedly …
Read More »The Sun: Terrorists using COD to "plot attacks"
Pay attention Daily Mail – this is how you troll the games industry. In what can only be described as a remarkably stupid cover story in today’s issue of The Sun, the Murdock daily has sensationally claimed that Call of Duty is being used by terrorist to plot attacks. Islamic …
Read More »Zynga boss hints at Xbox partnership?
Mark Pincus, the boss of social and casual gaming giant Zynga, has hinted at what appears to be a possible partnership with Microsoft that could see Zynga titles appear on Xbox. Speaking of cross-device compatibility, Pincus told GigaOM that: "Right now we are building back-end technology, so that your game …
Read More »Blizzard: WoW on iOS remains a possibility
World of Warcraft could yet be released on iOS, providing developer Blizzard can find a way of acceptably mapping the MMO’s controls onto touch screens You’ve got to put an interface, what do you do?” WoW senior producer John Lagrave told Eurogamer. Maybe we’ll stumble on the great way to …
Read More »Forget triple-A – Microsoft gunning for quadruple-A experiences
The days of the triple-A blockbuster are over, for today the games industry worships a new goal – the quadruple-A title. Well, that’s if you listen to Microsoft, which in a recent job listing spotted by Gamefront used the term quadruple-A (or AAAA, to be precise) no less than three …
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