250 out of work as Gameloft suddenly shuts down its India studio More: Smartphone/Tablet , Business/Marketing , Exclusive , Recruitment On the same day that Gameloft’s company heads boasted to investors and journalists of its 27 percent revenue growth in 2012, the entirety of its India studio was told to pack up and go home. via: www.gamasutra.com

Nintendo Announces Third-Quarter Financial Results Nintendo have today announced details of their financial results for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, through December 31st, 2012. Nintendo saw year-on-year increases in the sale of 3DS hardware (up 11% year-on-year), and software was up 41% year-on-year,… via: www.godisageek.com

Terry Cavanagh testing VVVVVV on iPhone, not launching anytime soon The iOS port of Terry Cavanagh’s flipping-centric platformer VVVVVV is running,undergoing testing by the man himself, though that shouldn’t be taken as evidence of its impending release. Cavanagh revealed via Twitter that while the game technically works, at least well enough to get two thirds of the way through without dying (above),… via: www.joystiq.com

Sweet Mother Of Dragons, Get A Load Of King’s Landing Recreated In Minecraft We’ve seen some amazing Game of Thrones stuff from the people at Westeroscraft in the past, but these latest shots of King’s Landing just may take the cake. Check ’em out: Good lord. You can practically smell the place. Those images come from Imgur via reddit and pretty much everyone on Twitter. via: kotaku.com

Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt DLC Review Game: Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt Developer: Gearbox Software Publisher: 2K Games Available on: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC Reviewed on: Xbox 360 Here we are, barely four months past Borderlands 2’s release date, and we’ve already seen three substantial slices of DLC – not to mention the addition of a fifth Vault Hunter,… via: www.godisageek.com

Gears of War Judgment multiplayer demo dated: early access for GameStop pre-orders Gears of War: Judgment is getting a demo in March, courtesy of Epic Games and Microsoft. It’s a multiplayer demo focused on the game’s OverRun mode, and if you pre-order from GameStop you can get it early.

PlayStation Plus European Games for February Revealed, Get Excited! It feels like we say this a lot, but God damn PlayStation Plus is excellent. February’s games have been revealed and yet again, PS+ members (in Europe) are going to be doing a happy dance. In February, if you subscribe to PS+, you’ll be able to download, free of charge, the following games (you can click the name for our review):…

Bungie Replaces a Defective Disc It Didn’t Manufacture of a Game It Didn’t Make The secret to good customer service is not necessarily that the customer is always right. It’s in pretending he is always right. While, of course, pointing out he may, in fact, be wrong. Politely. Here, Bungie takes one for the Halo team, despite the fact it parted ways in 2011 with the franchise it created.