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Facebook games giant says its future is platform-agnostic

New facility in Bonhill Street to host hackathons and help start-ups

Google has opened up the internet giant’s social platform Google+ to the open public after three months of ‘field trial’ testing. "Google+ is still in its infancy, of course, but we’re more excited than ever to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software," wrote Google engineering chief …

New tools allow social devs to access public player info

Though around 20 per cent have been deleted, says analytics firm

Dev kit allows studios to deploy games across smartphones and handhelds

Further details on Amazon’s upcoming Android-powered tablets have emerged, describing the colour-screened 7-inch device simply as the ‘Amazon Kindle’. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler said"I’ve seen it and used it", adding that a condition of hands-on time with Amazon’s new hardware was that no pictures would be taken. Nevertheless Siegler reveals much …

Criticisms of UK education system 'reiterate proposals made on games education study'

Paris headquartered mobile games publisher Gameloft is launching a hopeful new revenue model for the Android operating system. The app publisher has begun the Gameloft Club, a subscription model being test-run in the UK. For a rolling cost of 99p each week, users will be able to select a new …

Publisher tries new approach for the widely pirated platform