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Spacetime Studios registers 100 million play sessions
Pocket Legends and Star Legends: The Blackstar Chronicles show high user engagement
13th February 2012 @ 9:55am
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GigaMedia details business changes
FunTown creator follows new hires with office mergers
13th February 2012 @ 9:36am
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Activision admits to bungled Call of Duty Elite launch
DICE 2012: "It's far from time for us to be doing any victory laps," despite high adoption of service, says CEO
10th February 2012 @ 7:21pm
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Google: Games can ruin online communities
Google+ engineering director warns against rushing games onto social networks
10th February 2012 @ 9:54am
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Big Fish Games to "break new ground" with cloud service
Casual games a natural fit for the cloud, company grows research team by 30
9th February 2012 @ 8:45pm
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Shanda and Trion Worlds take Rift to China
Fantasy MMO to enter competitive Chinese online gaming market
9th February 2012 @ 3:24pm
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Gaikai realises streaming goals with Darkness 2 demo
"An instant, hands-on experience is by far the most powerful weapon in a publisher's marketing arsenal"
8th February 2012 @ 12:45pm
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Microsoft: "Together we can prevail over criminals"
Xbox Live GM issues plea to users for help in fight against hackers
8th February 2012 @ 8:49am
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Splash Damage devs launch online gaming service
Fireteam will offer console, transmedia and free-to-play developers services like friend features and matchmaking
7th February 2012 @ 2:45pm
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ChangYou reports 2011 net income of $245.5 million
MMO publisher sees $123 million revenue from online gaming in 2011
7th February 2012 @ 9:25am
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GFACE launches Crytek backed freemium service
Gface.com to offer game streaming and social networking to multiple devices
3rd February 2012 @ 9:27am
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Star Wars: The Old Republic paid subs estimated at 1.3m
Analysts turn their attention to Bioware and EA's big MMO
Digital Capital ready to fund digital games
New start up offering funding to mobile, console and PC developers
1st February 2012 @ 4:34pm
Business
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Channel 4 Education launches Sims 3 show
SuperMes created by digital production company Somethin' Else
Nexon and Nexon Mobile to merge
Deal to complete in April, will " make more active use of Nexon's IP" says CEO
1st February 2012 @ 2:00pm
Mobile
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Bigpoint passes 250m registered users
Free-to-play browser company pulling in 250,000 new users a day
1st February 2012 @ 8:30am
Business
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Spil users spend up to €45 on free-to-play games
Developers expected to make $5m via platform this year
31st January 2012 @ 6:00pm
Business
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WB Interactive: Subscription MMOs not dead yet
But restrictive payment options are, claims Lord Of The Rings Online publisher
13 year old Everquest goes free-to-play
Storied MMO adopts new business model on its first teenage birthday
31st January 2012 @ 8:41am
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NCsoft says Bluehole Studio stole assets for TERA
Update: En Masse vice president of publishing Chris Lee responds, "outright rejects" claims
Roblox sees 109 per cent increase in user generated content
While vice president of marketing exits company after one year
27th January 2012 @ 10:38am
Games
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Virgin Gaming hits 1 million registered users
Competitive gaming platform has dished out $7m in prizes
27th January 2012 @ 9:07am
Business
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New Nintendo Network may offer full game purchases
Wii-U and 3DS specific service expands on services, including DLC
27th January 2012 @ 8:32am
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Art Of Crime partners with Habbo Hotel SVP
Family MMO Crimeville set to expand after success in Scandanavia
26th January 2012 @ 10:12am
Developers
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Denki: Marketing behind Quarrel publisher struggle
MD says acquisition teams were superseded by finance and marketing
26th January 2012 @ 9:23am
Developers
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No BlizzCon in 2012
Blizzard will focus on Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria and Battle.net World Championship this year
25th January 2012 @ 2:20pm
Developers
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UK PC download chart to debut in February
24 companies involved in early beta
24th January 2012 @ 6:07pm
Retail
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Origin signs 11 more publishers
EA's digital distribution services adds Paradox Interactive, CD Projekt RED and Trion Worlds to line up
24th January 2012 @ 2:32pm
Publishers
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Playcast brings its cloud gaming to France
Signs deal with Bouygues Telecom, Bbox Games will go live in Spring
24th January 2012 @ 10:34am
Games
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Microsoft Points to be phased out by end of year
Developers being briefed on currency change - report
