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Do you have a subscription for monthly copies of the National Geographic?  If you do then great news is here, if not then this great news is really targeted at you.  The National Geographic, known for it’s beautiful photography and fascinating articles, is teaming up with Namco and Sony to bring a meld of science, [...]

Activision Blizzard stands firmly as the worlds largest, and greatest, third party game developer.  They say, though, that when you’re at the top, the only way is down…Activision takes a different approach to this saying.  The company feels that the only way is up as Activision Publishing announced that it has acquire an Iowa-based games [...]

David Braben, the founder of Elite, has told EuroGamer exactly how he feels about retail game swap-shops, such as Gamestation, Game and other private companies.
Braben says: “We’ve got a lot of retailers eating our lunch and refusing to sell full-priced games. I’ve been in a shop where I’ve tried to buy a copy of a [...]

The combination of mobile gaming an GPS could prove to be a great thing, but so far developers have ignored it in favour of action games, and sport.

It’s fair to say that EA Mobile is doing well in the mobile gaming landscape. With Spore Origins, Boom Blox and Tetris Pop doing well, they seem to have hit their stride with the release of SimCity: Metropolis.
The new game certainly borrows elements from its predecessor SimCity: Societies, but according to producer Oliver Proulx, adds [...]

After six months of beta testing and over seven million downloads, MuZui.com went live on the 15th of September.

Developers Staffan and Thomas Kjellberg have scooped one of the top prizes in Google’s Android Developer Challenge, with their innovative game: Softrace.
The competition was launched to stimulate application development for the new platform. Ten prizes of $275,000 were awarded, and ten further ‘runner-up’ $100,000 prizes were won.
Softrace was the only game in the first category. [...]

Cellufun, has five million members on its mobile games community and portal, so they have found a novel way of keeping everyone in check. How? I hear you ask. Well by establishing virtual law enforcement of course including, Judge, Jury and executioner.

The ‘lawmen’s’ job is to stem acts of virtual anti-social behaviour, bullying and [...]

 
In a not to dissimilar story to yesterday news that Apple’s App Store have opened a developer beta testing section, Nokia has announced that they have launched a new site called N-Gage Insider – which is targeted at the game development community.
 
The site promises to offer “in-depth, cutting edge technical information” about the N-Gage platform, [...]