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MGM Wireless has appointed former GoPro and Walt Disney marketing and sales executive Jason Le as director of digital marketing, strategy and product development to spearhead online sales for its Spacetalk children’s smartphone watch.

The team behind the wildly popular Borderlands games is working on two games for Xbox One and PS4, according to studio boss Randy Pitchford.

The recent addition of a R18+ rating for video games in Australia was widely celebrated by proponents of the rights of adults to consume all forms of entertainment aimed at them.  And then two games were refused classification, State of Decay and Saints Row IV.  Well State of Decay has been slightly altered and will be released, and all indications are that Saints Row IV will now make its way to Australian retail shelves.

Bankrupt game developer THQ today announced that most of its remaining game catalogue and IP has been sold off in another round of auctions.

Those kind folk over at the Humble Bundle have done it again, offering up some real nice PC games for a ridiculously small price, and a ridiculously good cause.

Having been on shaky ground for some time now, THQ (Darksiders, Saints Row, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine) has taken the step to close down its office in Melbourne.

Officially it is a studio realignment allowing THQ to focus on strategic initiatives, but for many Australian video game employees the closure of THQ in Brisbane and Blue Tongue Entertainment in Melbourne will mean a scramble for new employment in what is increasingly becoming an independent development scene.

THQ's uDraw GameTablet is heading for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in time for Christmas.

Publisher THQ has given iTWire some early hands on action time with the latest Relic Entertainment title to bring the war-torn universe of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K to digital life.  Space Marine is a third person action game that puts you in the gigantic magnetised boots of humanities greatest warriors, pitted against humanities most fearsome enemies.

A pressure-sensitive graphics tablet for the Nintendo Wii goes on sale in Australia today, along with the first compatible games. The uDraw GameTablet looks like a fun peripheral.

There must be something in the eggnog around the Valve headquarters, as the company's Steam Christmas sale has outdone virtually every other gaming sale in history.