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UPDATE: Sony comment retracted.
Update: NowGamer, the website responsible for the original report, has pulled the Sony-attributed comment stating that the pictures were “definitely fake”.
The website now tows the standard line Eurogamer heard earlier today: that Sony doesn’t comment on “rumour and speculation”.
Original story: Sony Europe has declared that the PlayStation phone images that appeared on the internet overnight are “definitely fake”.
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A new report highlights the building momentum of Android devices and the rise of paid-for game apps.
Research and consulting firm Futuresource Consulting has revealed projections for the future of mobile gaming worldwide.
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Quarterly guide to greener electronics slams the Japanese games company for the second time in a row.In the 16th edition of Greenpeace’s Guide To Greener Electronics report, Nintendo is ranked last place with a score of 1.8 out of 10. Nintendo achieved the same score in the last report, issued in May.
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HAL man reckons it would work with Mario.
Nintendo has already revealed that Kirby’s Epic Yarn began life without Kirby. Now one of the developers has suggested that Epic Yarn is a strong enough concept that it could continue without him into other Nintendo series.
Technically both revelations came from the same instalment of the unmissably formal Iwata Asks, but the first, news that the game was originally about a chap called “Fluff”, was from a partial translation of the Japanese transcript. This week’s comes courtesy of the full English translation.
In it, HAL Laboratory’s Tadashi Ikegami, who began in sound but worked on Epic Yarn as more of a manager, told Nintendo president Satoru Iwata that when he first saw the Epic Yarn visuals he thought, “they were perfect for Kirby”.
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“Steve said yes.”
A former Bungie developer has claimed that Apple was on the verge of buying the Halo developer just before Microsoft did back in the late nineties.
Yesterday, former Microsoft executive Ed Fries revealed that he was asked by CEO Steve Ballmer to placate Steve Jobs after the acquisition because the famously volatile Apple boss was furious about it.
Now, former Bungie staffer Tuncer Deniz, who worked there prior to the Microsoft buyout, has claimed that Jobs had also been invited to buy the studio, only to lose out because he dithered for a week before he made his mind up.
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Bigger than Twitter according to US firm.
US analyst outfit SharesPost has valued FarmVille creator Zynga at $5.51 billion.
According to the firm, its valuations are based on “recent transaction prices, current posts, research estimates and recent last round venture financing valuations”.
SharesPost says it specialises in venture-backed private companies, using its various inputs to calculate prices and facilitates trades. To put the Zynga figure in perspective, it currently values Twitter at just under $3 billion and Facebook at nearly $33 billion.
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New content available now.
The first batch of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions DLC has just gone live, allowing players to pick up a new Cosmic Spidey costume pack.
For the princely sum of 240 Points on Xbox 360 or £1.99 on PlayStation 3, you’ll get an intergalactic new outfit for each of the webslinger’s four different incarnations in Activision’s recent comic book tie-in.
That’s not all though the costumes bring with them a new charge attack to master.
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Get the first episode of Telltale’s Back to the Future: The Game for free (Back to the Future (2010))
We’re super grateful for Telltale, who have created, albeit not single-handedly, a new renaissance in adventure games. After proving themselves with several seasons of Sam & Max, as well as a Monkey Island revival, the company is gearing up to promote their new Back to the Future pseudo-sequel game by giving it away (at least part of it)… …
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For some reason, Star Trek has proven to be a tricky franchises for game developers to interpret. Undaunted, however, Gameforge and Keen Software House are giving it a shot with Star Trek: Infinite Space. The trailer released today gives us a look at the promised ‘epic space battles’ in the upcoming free-to-play browser based MMO… …
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Unhappy with a perceived lack of updates to PC sensation Minecraft, a group of gamers initiated a distributed denial of service attack on the game’s servers earlier this week. A DDoS attack floods a target server with so many requests for information that it can’t handle the load and prevents legitimate requests (i.e. players) from gaining access… …