In this week's Gaming News Round-up: Kingdom Hearts 3D is coming to the Nintendo 3DS, whilst female gamers ask developers to address the lack of female avatars within Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer. FULL STORY >

RIMs CEO has written an open letter explaining why the company is not facing its imminent demise. FULL STORY >

The Nintendo 3DS XL has received both a price and a local release date by the Core Group. FULL STORY >

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Samsung launches its Smart App Challenge 2012 global app development competition. FULL STORY >

In this week's Gaming News Round-up, Guild Wars 2 gets dated, whilst the multiplayer info for The Last of Us is revealed. FULL STORY >

In some good news for app users and publishers alike, app retention is on the rise due to a growth in the quality of apps. FULL STORY >

Making headlines in this month's Green News is MotoCzysz who set a speed record at the 2012 Isle of Man race, whilst the Solar Impulse solar powered airplane made another historic flight. FULL STORY >

Strategy Analytics has forecasted that the smartphone market worldwide will increase by 38% year-on-year during Q2 2012. FULL STORY >

The latest Silent Hill title offers up the usual excellent storyline and adds some new gameplay elements, but will it make you shield your eyes? FULL STORY >

Nintendo surprised many by announcing that it would be launching a larger 3DS XL, despite previously stating that it was satisfied with the 3DS hardware as is. FULL STORY >

Vodacom is launching the Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone locally next month. FULL STORY >

In this week's Gaming News Round-up: Hideo Kojima reveals that a fifth title in the Metal Gear Solid franchise is in development, whilst DLC will become available for New Super Mario Bros 2 following its launch. FULL STORY >

Lenovo South Africa has announced the availability of its IdeaPad U310 and U410 ultrabooks, powered by the 3rd generation Intel Core processors. FULL STORY >

In this week's Gaming News Round-up: The Dark Knight and Max Payne are coming to a tablet near you, whilst the Ratchet and Clank Collection goes gold. FULL STORY >