Apple loses top developer

Graeme Devine, a top video game designer/developer, has left Apple, where he was hired last year to perfect the iOS gaming experience, reports Mashable.

Not surprisingly, the report says, he has left to pursue a career in iOS game development - a job that brings all the money and none of the confinements of corporate life.

Devine, who began his game-design career at age 16 with Atari, was working within Apple's iPhone division to improve the multi-touch, mobile gaming experience. His job involved ensuring that all hardware and software components played nicely together to make the iPhone the best game-playing device it could possibly be.

An investigation into DeNA is to be made by the Japan Fair Trade Commission about possible anti-competitive practices, says Inside Japan.

The mobile gaming site operator is facing allegations it may have pressured game developers in withholding titles from a competitor's site.

Tokyo-based DeNA's mobile phone site as over 20 million users and combines social networking with an internet portal, which allows access to free online video games. The company has enjoyed strong growth in recent years and reported revenue of 51.28 billion yen from April to September this year.

Nvidia has licensed its SLI technology to leading motherboard manufacturers like Intel, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and EVGA for use on their P67 Chipset-based motherboards, says Tech 2.0.

Customers who purchase Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge Processor along with a SLI-certified motherboard will be able to equip their PCs with any combination of single or dual Nvidia GPUs.

With this announcement, Nvidia's SLI tech is now available to all consumer based desktop and mobile PC platforms, including the Intel Core i7, i5, i3, Core 2 Quad and -Duo processors, as well as those based on the AMD Phenom II CPU.