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Backbreaker gets KFC deal

Oxford tech studio and developer NaturalMotion has secured a deal with KFC that will see the fast-food giant sponsor a free version of the morpheme company’s Backbreaker game. The promotion, lasting a month, grants players acces to 10 specially selected ‘waves’ and a range of community tools which have, up …

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iPhone 4 jailbreak arrives, is effortless

Just days after the US Government deemed the ‘jailbreaking’ of mobile handsets to be legal, the first hack for the iPhone 4 has gone live. What will be more worrying for Apple, however, is the ease with which the new hack can be applied. Users don’t even need access to …

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Zynga embroiled in Street Racing row

The unyielding level of authority Zynga has over its paying customers was exposed this week, as fans of social network game Street Racing continue to protest an unexplained decision to abolish the game. Those fans, having together invested untold amounts of real money into the Facebook game, have been told …

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PvZ update removes Michael Jackson

Casual games publisher PopCap has confirmed that it will be ditching its use of a zombie character resembling Michael Jackson from future versions of the popular tower defence game Plants vs Zombies. Pop legend Michael Jackson passed away a little over a year ago, and now the Jackson Estate has …

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