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Studios for 13 countries around the world have already entered Computec’s Make The Game competition. The contest opened back in January and has seen entries from firms in the UK, US, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, India, Argentina, Costa Rica and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Participants have to create a new …
Read More »Harrison: Iwata is wrong
Former Sony Studios boss and general partner at London Venture Partners Phil Harrison has dismissed Saturo Iwata’s recent criticism of the App Store revolution at GDC. "Iwata-san has done an incredible job rebuilding Nintendo over the last few years," Harrison told Industry Gamers. "He is a great leader of that …
Read More »Jagex making Transformers MMO
The powerhouse Transformers IP will next year get a brand new MMO following an agreement between casual behemoth Jagex and rights holder Hasbro. The game has been pencilled in for a 2012 release in Europe, North America, Latin America, New Zealand and Australia. Transformers is one of the most iconic …
Read More »Zynga reveals Japan quake charity drive
Zynga has begun a new charity initiative to help children affected by the devastating tsunami that has swept across Japan. The firm is introducing donation options within games such as CityVille, FarmVille, Zynga Poker, FrontierVille and Words with Friends. These games will have donation buttons appear as people purchase Facebook …
Read More »EA slashes iPad 2 game prices
Third price cut since Christmas as publisher pushes ahead on mobile
Read More »Facebook boosts European dev support
'We want to be as global as we possibly can,' says firm's top engineers
Read More »Moshi mania at online games pop-up shop
Some 1,700 kids and parents swarmed to London’s Moshi Monsters pop-up shop during its first 24 hours. Mind Candy – the developer behind the hit online virtual pets game – opened the one-off spin-off shop two weeks ago. The firm even had to draft in extra security to cope with …
Read More »Rebellion opens Facebook division
UK studio Rebellion has become the latest studio to tackle the lucrative social games business, by setting up an internal division to build product for various platforms such as Facebook. The move comes after the Oxford-based developer launched the beta of its free-to-play Facebook game, Evil Genius. Rebellion will still …
Read More »Angry Birds flies to Facebook later this year
Developer Rovio also says driving and sport spin-offs possible once Rio tie-in is out; console versions still on-course
Read More »iPad 2 launches same day as 3DS in UK
The second generation of iPad will launch in the UK on the same day as Nintendo’s 3DS. Apple confirmed the news today during one of its customary spring press conferences in San Francisco. iPad 2 lands in the UK and a number of other countries two weeks after a March …
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