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Zynga hired for Google Games launch?

The company behind the world’s biggest Facebook games will be the cornerstone of Google Games when it launches later this year, claims TechCrunch. The technology website claims Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in Zynga to help launch its social games service – which the search giant …

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BPI targets Google in file-sharing drive

In the latest move in its quest to defeat the never-ending legion of internet copyright offenders, the British Phonographic Institute has made an official request to Google to remove a number of links to leading file-sharing sites. Those included in the demands include Megaupload, 4shared.com, Zippyshare, and MediaFire. The moves …

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PSOne emulator targeting Android

As if the PSP didn’t have enough piracy problems of its own, news has broken of a new PSOne emulator that’s currently in development for Google’s Android handsets. One of the PSPs key IPs is the ability to download a number of PSOne titles from PSN for play on the …

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PSOne emulator targeting Android

As if the PSP didn’t have enough piracy problems of its own, news has broken of a new PSOne emulator that’s currently in development for Google’s Android handsets. One of the PSPs key IPs is the ability to download a number of PSOne titles from PSN for play on the …

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Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th

Though there’s been no noise so far to celebrate it, today marks the 30th birthday of one of gaming’s most important icons – and internet search giant Google is paying special tribute. 30 years ago today Namco launched the very first Pac-Man arcade cabinets in Japan. At a time when …

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Google’s web-based game store

Google has detailed its new online app store, which is named the Chrome Web Store. Introducing the new rival to Apple’s App Store at the company’s San Francisco I/O developer conference yesterday, Google’s vice president of product management Sundar Pichai demonstrated how flash versions of the likes of Plants vs. …

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