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UTV Ignition Entertainment Announce Blacklight: Tango Down is now available for download on Playstation network - EU/ROW

Following a highly successful launch on Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows – LIVE this summer, PlayStation gamers will now receive a fully-updated version of the game, along with PSN-exclusive content.  Adding to the futuristic shooter’s seven game types and four co-op missions, the PSN launch will include ‘Crossover’ a PSN-exclusive map, which draws players into the financial district just as it transforms into a war zone. Also exclusive to Blacklight: Tango Down’s PSN release is the ‘Join in Progress’ feature, which allows players to team up with their friends and enter matches without having to wait for an intermission.

Eidos life president Ian Livingstone has teased some of the findings of the independent Skills Review that he's leading for the government, NESTA and SkillSet, with a goal to transforming the UK into the best source of talent for the videogame and visual effects sector.

Revealing findings at the London Games Conference this evening, Livingstone showed early encouraging results about parent's belief that the games industry offers strong career opportunities for their children.

In the second session of the European Electronic Sports League "Star Craft 2" Women's Cup, the winner is Peiling Liao; English name is Linda, who is from Taiwan, China.

Linda beat the player from the Czech and won the champion on European time on October 31.Before this she had won over 27 countries’ players in 4 hours. This is the first time of Taiwan's female players won the International Competition Champion.

KONAMI today announced new assets for Adrenalin Misfits on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The original IP is one of the first Konami titles to utilize Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 which brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways, requiring no controllers and gets players one-step closer to the realism and excitement of real world crossboarding.

THQ begins the countdown to the launch of its new uDraw gametablet with the '15 days of udraw' social media campaign.

THQ today kicks off its "15 Days of uDraw™" social media campaign in anticipation of the North American launch of its uDraw™ GameTablet™ for the Wii™ system from Nintendo, scheduled to be available in U.S. and Canada on November 14. 

Starting today, THQ will reveal an artwork a day, for a series of 15 days, on all of uDraw's social media portals, including Facebook and Twitter, to showcase the amazing possibilities that can be drawn and created using the uDraw GameTablet and uDraw Studio™.