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• 03 December 2012

• News: Xbox 360 first look: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

  2010’s Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing was a pleasant surprise, but then so has just about every game by developer Sumo Digital based on a Sega franchise.

• 02 December 2012

• News: Game on at the art museum

  Video games are fun and interactive, and they're apparently also art.

• 30 November 2012

• News: Atari celebrates Pong's 40th anniversary with an iOS app

  It wasn’t the most sophisticated game, especially compared to the graphic-intensive masterpieces being played on consoles today, but millions of old-school gamers still have a soft spot for table tennis classic Pong. Fans of the hit video game celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday.

• News: Microsoft's next Xbox is one year away, report claims

  Microsoft will release its next Xbox console in time for the 2013 holiday season, according to a report from Bloomberg.

• News: Free Game Friday: Games of Light Vs. Darkness

  You can't get more basic in the struggle between good and evil than light vs. darkness, so it's no wonder that games keep using those same symbols over and over. This week we've got light games about lights, dark games about darkness and games about the battle between the two. Also, we have dubstep.

• News: Gangnam Style comes to Microsoft's Dance Central 3

  The Gangnam Style phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down, with the tune by South Korean rapper, PSY, being featured in Dance Central 3 on the Xbox 360 as downloadable content (DLC).

• News: Sony sells 160,000 PS Vitas in first week of US holiday season

  Sony sold over 160,000 PlayStation Vitas during the opening week of the holiday shopping season in the U.S., a key test for its flagship handheld game.

• News: Facebook loosens ties with Zynga

  Facebook and Zynga have loosened their ties in an amended agreement that does away with most of Facebook's exclusive rights to Zynga games, but also permits Facebook to develop its own games from March next year.

• News: Xbox Live Gold free this weekend

  Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Live Gold subscription service will be unlocked and open to all users in 15 selected countries.

• News: Wii U launches overnight

  Nintendo's latest gaming console has hit Australian retailers.

• 29 November 2012

• News: What will a video games industry run by Apple look like?

  Apple more or less owns the video game industry already with the iPhone, and the iPad mini is likely to take over from traditional gaming devices; and that's before the television arrives. What will an Apple controlled video games market look like?

• 27 November 2012

• News: Nintendo Wii Mini announced

  BestBuy Canada has leaked Nintendo's yet to be announced Wii Mini console.

• 24 November 2012

• News: Free Game Friday: The Joy of Repetition

  It's no secret that games are hard to make. Creating all the art, music, story and play mechanics for a game takes quite a lot of time and effort. As a result, most games reuse content or force players to backtrack or otherwise repeat themselves. While some games do it to a fault, this week's games manage to capitalize on the best parts of repetition by creating fun and original reasons for you to do the same things over again.

• 23 November 2012

• News: Xbox Mini may be in works

  With the next generation of its Xbox gaming console, Microsoft may be thinking small and trying to muscle into the set-top box TV business with a new Xbox Mini, expected 2013.

• 22 November 2012

• News: Amazon launches streaming video for Wii U, pushes Amazon Prime

  Amazon.com has released its paid streaming video service on Nintendo's new Wii U console, with a host of titles free to users who subscribe to its Amazon Prime service.

• 20 November 2012

• News: Xbox 720 specifications revealed

  Xbox World magazine has revealed the specifications for Microsoft's Xbox 720.

• News: Sony releases development kit for PlayStation Mobile platform

  Sony has released the first public version of software to create games for PlayStation Mobile, its gaming platform for third-party phones and tablets.

• News: Nintendo packed wireless gear into Wii U for streaming video, future fun

  The console and the handheld GamePad in Nintendo's hot-selling Wii U form a special bond, thanks to proprietary smarts that Nintendo and Broadcom developed to drive high Wi-Fi performance.

• 19 November 2012

• News: Nintendo's Wii U sells out after launch despite some supply hiccups

  Less than a day after Nintendo’s Wii U launch in the U.S. on Sunday, the next-generation console is already sold out. Starting at $300 for a basic set with a tablet-style controller, the Wii U is the first console from any of the big three makers since the release of the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the original Wii in 2006.

• News: Curiosity for iOS is a game, but also a social experiment

  The name Peter Molyneux may not ring a bell, but gamers have likely encountered his creations before. Those include hits like the Fable franchise, Black & White, and Dungeon Keeper. You may say that he knows a thing or two about designing entertaining software.

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