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With the completion of Unit 13, the internal development studio has been shuttered.

Since 2006, Zipper Interactive has been a part of the Sony Computer Entertainment World Wide Studios family. After being acquired, the team went on to create SOCOM 4, MAG, and most recently, Unit 13. With that title completed, Sony has now confirmed closure of the studio. This news comes roughly one week after rumors were circulating that the studio was already in the process of being disbanded.

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Dene and Simon Carter have formed a new studio have departing from Peter Molyneux's team.

Former Lionhead Studios staffers Dene and Simon Carter have formed Another Place Productions, a new UK-based studio, according to Joystiq. Both brothers worked on the Fable series and have brought with them several other members of the Fable development team.

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A contest for 18 new pieces of in game art was also announced.

As previously revealed, Jet Grind Radio (or rather Jet Set Radio) is going to see a return with a port of the original. We now know that's to a post on Sega's blog that an HD version of the tagging classic will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC this summer.

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Both English and Japanese voiceovers available as well.

We can now narrow down the North American release window for Level-5’s Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.  Namco Bandai revealed that they have moved from the vague release window of 2012 to the slightly less vague release window of winter 2012.  Assuming the publisher isn’t referring to the winter we currently find ourselves in, this means that we’ll likely see the Studio Ghibli collaborated RPG come stateside at the end of the year.

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Another exclusive WP7 title that Microsoft is hoping will get noticed.

One of the most popular XBOX Live Indie Games, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1, is now available on Windows Phone—bundled with two other games under the title Z0MB1ES (on teh ph0ne). All three games come from the two-member development team at Ska Studios, which first became known for the XBLA title The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.

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