game news

29 employees made redundant as UK indie games retailer shuts all 12 company-owned stores.

APB developer reveals project which combines social media and traditional 3D gaming .

Sales of the French publisher’s iPhone and iPad products jumped 113 per cent during the three month period.

Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment report says Xbox Live Arcade revenues hit $46.1 million in the first six months of the year.

Platform holders detail PS3 and Xbox 360 motion control launch offerings for the UK market.

Nintendo of Japan is set to announce launch details for its upcoming handheld in two months’ time.

Profitability in the firm’s flagship games business slumped as Lost Planet 2 “underperformed its projection substantially”.

Wall Street Journal claims the web giant is in discussions with Zynga, Playdom and Playfish about a new social network to rival Facebook.

Appreciation of the yen and DS price cuts “adversely impacted” performance as total hardware and software sales declined in the first quarter.

Hardware cost reductions alongside improved PS3 console and software sales helped Sony trim first quarter operating losses.

Director general of the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association praises "significant" move to ban R4 cards and similar devices.

Cowen & Company’s Doug Creutz questions why Disney is willing to pay up to $763 million for the social games developer.

London High Court bans the importing, advertising or sale of the DS game copying device in the UK.

$75 million loan convinces Curt Schilling to relocate studio from Massachusetts to Rhode Island, drawing criticism from politicians in both states.

Skillset and Abertay University to stage conference focusing on “best practice in games education” next month in Edinburgh.

Independent publisher behind Fairytale Fights files for the Dutch equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.