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» Square Enix to buy Lara Croft & Eidos

Tomb Raider could start a brand new adventure.

Lara Croft is moving home – and not from one mansion to another, but from one publishing house to another.  Square Enix is making plans to buy out Eidos, who has been behind the highs and lows of the Lara Croft gaming phenomenon.
Tomb Raider hasn’t been performing very [...]

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» Fallout developer Bethesda coming to an iPhone near you…

iFallout Touch Pod…

It would seem as though Bethesda, the developers behind the highly successful Fallout 3, are moving to the iPhone as the executive producer of the company, John Howard announced at this years New York Comic Con.
The developers are heading into a market that is clearly taking gaming to the next level.  The iPhone [...]

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» Spring/Summer Release For DSi in Europe - How Vague Is That?

Nintnedo DSi is coming.
You know that time of the year that some people like to call “Spring/Summer”?  It’s right before and after “Winter/Autumn”, you know when it is.  Well Nintendo are hoping that you do because that’s when they have decided to bring their highly anticipated DSi to the European market.
Now, even though Spring/Summer is [...]

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» Nintendo Profits In - The Good (DS), The Bad (Wii) & The Ugly (PSP)

Nintendo Wii’s profits right down the drain.
It seems as though the time has come for the previously thought recession-proof gaming developer Nintendo have finally taken a hit in the economic downturn as their profits take a turn for the worse.
The developer had originally forecasted their sales of their popular Wii consoles to be around 27.5 [...]

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» Glu teams up with Movaya to bring direct-to-customer gaming

Glu, one of the leading mobile game publishers in the world, is set to join forces with Movaya, the mobile service provider, in an attempt to deliver mobile games directly to the player. The companies are hoping to bring the likes of Movaya’s PlugNPlay and TryNBuy solutions to Glu’s website in order to allow players [...]

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» eBay have had enough of counterfeit DS consoles

Counterfeit Nintendo DS’s are being sold left, right and centre.  A couple were caught the other day selling illegal copies of the gaming console on eBay and arrested.  However, eBay have said that they are putting their foot down on the matter, because they simply have had enough of it.
The couple, situated in Bromley in [...]

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» Windows Mobile to enter the application store market

It seems as though Apple’s AppStore started off a new generation of online application stores for smart phones and there is a new contender that’s getting ready to enter the market.  Windows Mobile is apparently preparing to release the news that they will be bringing out their own version of the AppStore, according to a [...]

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» Social Gaming is the way the iPhone should go in 2009 says Zynga

Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, one of the largest and most successful social gaming companies on Facebook, has announced that the iPhone is set to see a huge rise in the use of social gaming through 2009 if Apple decides to launch similar features that made the Facebook gaming craze so popular.
Pincus said, “The iPhone [...]

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» Cigarettes, Alcohol…and now Video Games on the naughty ‘health warning’ list

Cigarettes, alcohol…and now video games?  It seems as though the attack on video games has taken a turn against gaming lovers as a United States representative, Joe Baca, called for video games to start carrying health warnings.
If Baca gets his way, we will start seeing games coming out with labels on them stating, “WARNING: Excessive [...]

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» Lara Croft is under the knife as EIDOS hope to fix the Tomb Raider franchise

EIDOS are suffering – they have had some pretty bad news about Tomb Raider (one of their favourite games) as it has become pretty clear that the world has had just about enough of Lara Croft.  But wait a minute, EIDOS have decided they haven’t had enough of Lara Croft and instead of giving her [...]

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