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Originally Posted by wraggster

Social games giant releases Bubble Safari headed up by former EA creative director

Zynga has released Mark Turmell's free-to-play puzzle game Bubble Safari onto Facebook and its own games platform.
The title is the first game developed by the former EA Tiburon senior creative director since leaving the publisher last year.

Turmell left the company in July last year after just 18 months, and was one of a series of high profile developers to depart EA during 2011, with

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Long-awaited shooter becomes latest 2K game with release date extended

Boston studio Irrational Games’ next title will not see light of day until February 26th next year, the group has announced.
The delay pushes BioShock Infinite’s release to the end of the current financial year.

Publisher 2K, which has a reputation for providing its studios with flexible timelines to build their blockbuster games, had previously set BioShock Infinite’s release date for October.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Publisher Bethesda releases free in-browser edition to celebrate historic shooter

Id Software co-founder John Carmack has released a director's commentary for the original Wolfenstein to mark the game’s twentieth anniversary.
Carmack, who is the only Id Software co-founder still working with the company, talks through the development of the seminal FPS in the video below.

In further commemoration to the game’s legacy, a free web browser edition of Wofenstein 3D has

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Vesterbacka substantiates speculation on twitter by mentioning new title

Rovio has teased the studio’s first post-Angry Birds title in a video thanking users for one billion downloads of its flagship franchise.
The Finnish studio’s CEO Peter Vesterbacka appears to have substantiated the speculation on his twitter account by retweeting a story related to the mater.

The game in question refers to an image in the background of a balloon attached to a mechanism, ready

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Reached the figure "weeks ago", but strangely decided not announce it.
On Sunday, The Independent said Google Play is on course to pass 15 billion app downloads, though Google told TechCrunch the milestone is old news.
In December, Google Play reached ten billion app downloads, which means the extra five billion downloads could have arrived within Q1, depending on Google's definition of "weeks".
Apple's App Store leads the market with 600,000 apps, while Google

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