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• 22 February 2012

• Features: PlayStation Vita launch guide

  The PlayStation Vita is now available to buy in the UK today. Here's everything you need to know.

• News: Where to buy the PlayStation Vita in the UK

  Want to be one of the first to get your hands on a PlayStation Vita? Then look no further than our handy guide to the best deals.

• News: PlayStation Vita FAQs

  The next generation of Sony's gaming consoles is with us. Here's some frequently asked questions about the PlayStation Vita to help you get your head around the new console in a superfast time.

• News: Sony launches PlayStation Vita in UK

  Sony today launches the PlayStation Vita in the UK.

• News: New Assassin's Creed title to hit mobiles

  Ubisoft has teamed up with Gree for a new Assassin’s Creed titled geared towards mobile social gaming.

• 21 February 2012

• Opinion: Angry Birds Are Real, Take Flight at 2012 Toy Fair

  No, it wasn't the black bomb bird or the one that poops explosive charges, but the sight of a red Angry Bird patrolling the skies at last week's Toy Fair 2012 was jarring just the same, even as it generated smiles by the dozen.

• News: Sony taking the long view with Vita ahead of US, Europe launch

  The PlayStation Vita is launching in the U.S. and Europe with Sony's biggest sales event in recent memory -- parties with celebrities, midnight store openings and a US$50 million sales campaign.

• 20 February 2012

• News: Nintendo says it has sold 5 million 3DS consoles in Japan, overcoming slow start

  Nintendo said Monday that it has sold 5 million 3DS handheld game consoles in Japan, which it says makes the device the fastest-selling game platform ever in the country.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best graphics card?

  PC Advisor reviews and ranks the Top 5 graphics cards you can buy in the UK right now.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best budget graphics card?

  PC Advisor selects and reviews the best five graphics cards available for less than £150 in the UK right now.

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best PC game?

  PC Advisor reviews the best PC games you can play.

• 18 February 2012

• News: Indie Kinect Game Turns Your Doodles Into Weapons Of War

  Get ready to flex your creative muscle. In Andy Wallace's new tower defense game, Doodle Defense, creativity is just as important as strategy as you use your drawings to fend off an oncoming army.. Doodle Defense uses Xbox Kinect and a projector to turn a whiteboard into a game board. As the enemies begin marching across the board, you must draw barriers to divert them and towers to kill them in order to prevent enemies from exiting the play area.

• News: Gaming's 15 Funniest, Most Unfair, and Memorable Exploits

  Exploits. Sometimes, they break games in your favor, allowing you access to powers, abilities, and cheap ways to accomplish difficult tasks that a game's developers didn't intend for you to have (and a game's testers somehow overlooked). But these exploits can sometimes turn the tables against your peaceful adventures -- especially in massively multiplayer games like World of Warcraft or EVE Online, where game-breaking bugs can give your peers untold advantage over your hapless, plays-by-the-rules self.

• 17 February 2012

• Opinion: Angry Birds in Space: The Final Merchandising Frontier?

  It's official: Rovio's Angry Birds franchise will soon soar to the heavens for yet another round of revenge role-play.

• Opinion: This Card Game Takes Your Nerd Altercations to the Next Level

  Battlestar Galactica vs. Babylon Five vs. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine--if this is the sort of deep conversations you have with your friends, Geek Fight by Kalan Vazquez might be for you. It'll take your real-life geek fights to the next level--the card game level.

• News: Early Copies of Mass Effect 3 Will Go Into Space

  This week, BioWare released the Mass Effect 3 demo with both singleplayer and cooperative multiplayer modes. Next week the publisher, Electronic Arts, will release early copies into space using weather balloons.

• Opinion: Minecraft Developers Creating a Game in One Weekend

  Mojang, the developers behind the indie hit Minecraft, are creating a new original game in 48 hours. The challenge started at 10 CET (that’s 3am EST), and Mojang has just 60 hours to make a working game in a style and genre chosen by fans in a poll posted on Mojang’s blog earlier this week.

• 16 February 2012

• News: PlayStation Vita Teardown: 5 Findings

  Most PlayStation Vita owners won't dig any deeper than the game cartridge slot, so iFixit has done its usual thing and cracked open the handheld gaming system. Here are five findings from iFixit's PlayStation Vita teardown:

• Opinion: Play With Mechanical Puzzles In Your Browser With Interlocked

  Interlocked is a free Flash game, and a new take on a very old idea: mechanical puzzles. In Interlocked, you are presented with a three-dimensional shape composed of several interlocking parts (hence the name). You need to take the shape apart, piece by piece, by sliding the pieces around in the correct sequence.

• 15 February 2012

• News: Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud

  Zynga has moved most of its users away from Amazon Web Services and onto its private cloud in a move to maximize the reliability and performance of its social games network.

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