The trade association which represents the United Kingdom games industry said that the United Kingdom should aim to increase the proportion of Gross Domestic Product invested in higher education in two ways. The first way includes maintaining in real terms public expenditure on tertiary education at 2009 levels and then increasing it as the Government’s deficit is brought under control. The second one includes eliminating the cap on tuition fees. Tuition fees for students studying mathematics and computer science degrees should be set a competitive rate in comparison to other tuition fees in order to incentivize the study of these subjects. TIGA’s comments are responses to the Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance.

Electronic Arts Inc. announced that The Ryder Cup, which is one of the most prestigious tournaments in golf, will be featured in the new Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. The game will be available on 8th June on the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and iPhone platform and will support Sony’s new PlayStation 3 Motion Controller to give players an interactive swing experience.

Players will try to bring home The Ryder Cup for their squad as they select a team and take on the challenge. They are able to choose from the United States or European squad and participate in the various competition modes, which are foursomes, fourballs and singles.

The trade association that is representing the United Kingdom Games Industry, TIGA, announced today that Kempt is its newest member.

Specialized in the conception, production and promotion of Advergames, Kempt is a flash games developer and a leading agency in this rapidly growing form of brand communications.

Kempt are also the people behind some of the biggest Advergame campaigns ever to be released including kingofdefenders.com, which has received 70 million visits worldwide.

gPotato Europe is proud to announce the launch of the next expansion for the free-to-play fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Rappelz. This expansion is titled ‘Resurrection’, as the resurrection of the witch and the openings of the new PvP zone are now at hand. Challenging quests and fantastic new creatures await Rappelz players who want to join the latest version of this epic combat game.

The death match zone becomes not only the stage for merciless battles, but also an endless source of energy as the Players versus Player combats are increased in up to sixty-four (64) opponents at the same time.

Ubisoft announced the Public Beta Test for their one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems, R.U.S.E. The game is now supported and available for download through Valve’s Steam platform.

R.U.S.E. allows the player to use their brains as the ultimate weapon to fight in a war where the ability to deceive and mislead the enemy awards success.

Players will have the opportunity to play with six unique factions in the public beta, and train themselves against the artificial intelligence before entering the multiplayer mode.

Italy’s premier Television and Cross-Media awards festival, The “Cartoons on the Bay – Pulcinella Awards 2010″, announced its shortlist for the Best Interactive Animation award.

The UK Publisher Reef Entertainment and the Leading Italian independent developer Raylight are included, with their extreme sports game Free Running on the Nintendo Wii Home Gaming Console.

For the first time the 14th year old international television and multimedia animation festival has included entrants from the video games market and their contribution to the mainstream entertainment medium.

Community strategy agency behind some of the most legendary franchises, Promethium Marketing Group, released today the world’s first iPhone game that tosses ridiculous killer zombies and your twitter statistics into a tower defense blender for a “viral juicy mix”.

Designed in partnership with United Kingdom development studio GrinLock, Tweet Defense is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch at the limited sale price of $0.99.

The game features ten incredible levels that are built from easy walk in the park to devastating horror show, five whacked out enemy types, six tower types including the unique BOOSTER tower, and achievements including “Making Video Game History”.

Pimp your ride with the brand new Greentube eGame Mazda Burning Gears 2010 available as a free download at burning-gears.com

Burning Gears is a stunning racing game with cars, which takes place in the streets of Vienna’s city centre.

Six players can play simultaneously online in Mazda Burning Gears. The game includes explosive racing weekends, in which speed freaks have the chance to win a lot of prices, virtual chases, and an amazing tuning shop where the users can start up their own cars.

Valve announced that it will be bringing its gaming service and gaming engine, Steam and Source, to the Mac platform.

Valve’s catalog of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life franchise plus Steam will be available in April.

President of Valve, Gabe Newell, explained that customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients, as they transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service. He also said that the Mac is a great platform for entertainment services.

Jenkins Software has released today a new free data mining and visualization utility designed for game development titled Echo Chamber.

The Developer of RakNet, Jenkins Software, released today a free data mining tool used to visualize game session metrics. The name of the software is Echo Chamber.

The Supported usage includes Video playback with frame rate and memory usage reports as the session progresses and Heat map of the player and opponent activity overlaid on the level map plus combined multiplayer session recording.

XS Games announced the early spring 2010 release of The Red Star for iPhone and PSPGo. The game was previously released on the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console and met with widespread acclaim. The Red Star combines top-down shooters and beat ‘em up gameplay, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Christian Gossett.

Chief Executive Officer of XS Games, Steve Grossman, said that The Red Star is a proudly old school combination of classic action genres, much in the spirit of Contra and Streets of Rage. He also explained that the PSPGo and iPhone are perfect platforms for the game in terms of controls, visuals and price.

Owners of the iPhone or iPod Touch devices can now experience the thrill of hunting in their own hands with Real Trophy Hunting. Developed by the founders of the hunting game genre, Real Trophy Hunting is an ultra-realistic hunting game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is now available for download at the Apple App Store for only $1.99.

The Founder of the hunting game genre, and the developer of the mega-hit game Deer Hunter, Sunstorm Interactive Inc., proudly announced today the release of Real Trophy Hunting for the iPhone and iPod Touch portable devices. The game takes big game hunting to a new level of realism, developed on the style and knowledge of over fifty value games and hunting simulations.