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UK teachers call for "stringent legislation" on violent video games
Association of Teachers and Lecturers believe gaming influences playground behaviour of primary-age children
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Critical Consensus: Kinect Star Wars
Terminal Reality duels with the Kinect's shortcomings. Can the Star Wars license save the day?
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"Next generation of freemium games will be indistinguishable from AAA"
ngmoco's Ben Cousins describes the breadth and depth of the free-to-play future
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Amazon trounces Google Play in Android app revenue
Flurry data indicates average revenue per user more than three times that of Google's own marketplace
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Foxconn opening new plant in Hainan, expanding operations in Brazil
Controversial manufacturing firm aims to ease conditions in existing factories
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RIM posts Q4 net loss of $125 million
Mobile firm withdraws earnings guidance due to struggling US smartphone business
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Sony confirms Zipper Interactive closure
Decision the result of "resource realignment," MAG, SOCOM 4 and Unit 13 will continue to receive support
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My Horse hits 8m downloads, 500k DAUs
Natural Motion urges iOS devs to stop iterating and find more unique ideas
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Cousins predicts "free-to-play equivalent of Skyrim" in two years
Ngmoco Sweden boss expects F2P dev budgets of $1bn, companies hitting market caps of $100bn
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Apple CEO visits China to help smooth the path to progress
Tim Cook due to meet with various government officials to help speed the company's growth in the region
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Gaming was the biggest UK entertainment retail sector in 2011
Video game software overtakes video for the first time, now 40 per cent of entertainment retail
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Canberra introduces R18+ rating
Australian Capital Territory to get new rating this week, national introduction expected in 2013
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Critical Consensus: Angry Birds Space
Rovio answers its critics and takes its mega-franchise to the next level
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6waves Lolapps loses key execs
Chief technology officer Brian Rue and chief product officer Arjun Sethi step down following dev team layoffs
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Jagex appoints EA vet as VP of technology
Remo Gettini leaves position as CTO of Time Out, Peter Lovell promoted to talent acqusiition manager
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Casino gaming start-up Plumbee secures $2.8 million in funding
UK social developer run by Playfish veterans brings in new VC investment
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Nokia confirms 1000 redundancies at Finnish plant
Layoffs will be gradual, all jobs to be gone by June this year
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US Congress requests data usage details from Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare
Investigation into inappropriate use of Apple's iOS data now includes dozens of social app developers
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Future Proof: HTML5, Native Client and the Battle for the Browser
Massively Fun, Pixel Lab and Zipline Games on the next great gaming platform
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Digital and alternative revenue streams generated $3.3 billion in Q4 2011
NPD Group reports strong fourth quarter sales from sources outside of new physical retail
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Bobby Kotick urges US companies to hire veterans
Activision-Blizzard CEO asks private enterprise to meet the challenge presented by returning vets
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China now leads the world in iOS and Android activations
Rapid growth pushes China past the US and into the top-spot for the first time
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Analysts cool on impact of GAME closure
The collapse of the high-street retailer will only hurt the industry in the short-term, if it hurts the industry at all
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Blizzard and NetEase renew license deal for WoW in China
New deal arrives ahead of Mists of Pandaria launch, will last until 2015
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Survey shows waning interest in Android development
2200 devs also indicate growing preference for Google's service network over Facebook's social graph