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Sticky: E3 2008 Coverage and Events
[b:ef34888903]Monday, July 14th:[/b:ef34888903] 9:30am (PST): Microsoft Press Conference (LIVE blog...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:15 am, Editorial Team

Sticky: Obama talks GTA IV - your opinion?
Barrack Obama has referred to the record-breaking sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, and - shock - hasn\'t...
Thu May 01, 2008 4:42 pm, Editorial Team

Sticky: Obama and Videogames - ANALYSIS - not against video games
[img:39e9625d7f]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2811/obama08thumblogo200po6.gif[/img:39e9625d7f] ...
Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:55 pm, Editorial Team

Sticky: Byron Report: Full analysis, response, news and report
The [b:1e54f2dea5]Byron Review[/b:1e54f2dea5] was a report delivered on the 27 March 2008to the UK G...
Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:18 am, Editorial Team

Sticky: George Orwell's 5 Rules for Effective Writing Style
In our society, the study of language and literature is the domain of poets, novelists, and literary...
Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:15 pm, Editorial Team

Sticky: Inside Spymac Leapfrog - Yet Another Blunder
For people who have never heard of spymac, let me give you some background to it. It was founded in...
Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:05 am, Editorial Team
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Sticky: CeBIT 2007: New releases, Industry news and announcements.
[b:46bd0db358]Several vultures descended on Hannover this week to bring you the latest news on all t...
Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:33 am, Editorial Team

End to End consulting
[ Hi, We provide End to End marketing consulting for products and services across many countries...
Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:48 am, kcsbpo2007

UK games biz demands closer ties with academia
UK videogame industry leaders have demanded greater ties betweenbusiness and academia to ensure that...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:02 pm, Editorial Team

Valve: PC Market is Not Dying, PC Retail in America is
While talking to TGR, VP of Marketing and Development at Valve DougLombardi touched on the PC market...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:25 am, Editorial Team

Yahoo! for In-Game Ads
Yahoo! hassigned up with in-game ad firm Double Fusion and Nolan Bushnell\'sNeoEdge to help deliver f...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:22 am, Editorial Team

Gaming:The WTF World of Wikipedia - 15 unbelievable "tr
You. Your friends and family. Your classmates and coworkers. In thebrave new world of the internet, ...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:21 am, Editorial Team

A Look Back at Nordic Game 08
The Nordic Game conference feels a little like a family gathering.Despite taking place in a giant co...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:12 am, Editorial Team

UK Game File-Sharers Hit with Fines
Four UK citizens were slapped with fines after the publisher of a PCpinball game charged that they u...
Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:11 am, Editorial Team

Has the PC sports market has declined?
Consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have lured sports gamersaway from a PC market already m...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:52 am, Editorial Team

MPs banned from playing games in parliament
Bhutan national assembly speaker NimaTshering has banned Bhutan MPs from bringing laptops into Parli...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:51 am, Editorial Team

Fallout 3 to be Banned in Australia?
[URL=http://au.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26468684&part=rss&tag=gs_news&...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:49 am, Editorial Team

Virtual Policy 08: UK Government and virtual worlds
founder of the [URL=http://virtualpolicy08.eventbrite.com/www.virtualpolicy.net]Virtual Policy Netwo...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:49 am, Editorial Team

HMV: Videogames "are the new rock 'n' roll"
HMV\'s head of games, Tim Ellis, has told [i:f5d327910c]GamesIndustry.biz[/i:f5d327910c]that videogam...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:44 am, Editorial Team

Gaming Overtakes DVD Sales
The gaming industry took in $18.85 billion during 2007, a figurethat trumps the $16 billion in DVD s...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:42 am, Editorial Team

Rethinking Traditional Advertising Methods
You see, for all the talk of monthly periodicals\' demise, SEO\'simpending reign, the downfall of FM s...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:40 am, Editorial Team

The Independent Games Festival: A History In Press Clippings
So, we [URL=http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/07/2009_igf_announces_call_for_su.php]just launched[/UR...
Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:39 am, Editorial Team

European, Indian Markets to Get New PS2
Sony Computer Entertainment will be launching a redesigned PS2 inEuropean and Indian markets by late...
Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:02 am, Editorial Team

BBFC hits back at UK games industry and MS - 'we can cope'
"We are disappointed and concernedabout attempts by one or two video games publishers to pre-em...
Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:04 am, Editorial Team

PC piracy is as high as 1:20
The ratio of legal sales to illegal piracy of high profile PC titlescould be as much as one to 20, a...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:51 am, Editorial Team

UK Traders caught selling violent games to children
Thirty-eight online traders and three high street shops havebeen caught selling 18-rated video games...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:47 am, Editorial Team

ASA warns envelopes with marketing must be transparent
An envelope used in a Virgin Media mailshot broke advertisingrules because it failed to make its mar...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:47 am, Editorial Team

RSS - who profits?
Of course your content is your copyright and others should not copyit without your permission. But a...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:44 am, Editorial Team

The death of computer science grads is hitting us hard
David Braben has slammed British gaming degrees, claiming thatdevelopers are finding it increasingly...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:42 am, Editorial Team

Games Industry Movers: Trion, 38 Studios, Kongregate & M
his past week, 38 Studios (the developer founded by Red Sox pitcherCurt Schilling) announced that Th...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:42 am, Editorial Team

Revealed: Sony's future plans for PS3, PSP and TV
"This is not your father\'s Sony", sums up what Howard Stringer has done at Sony since taki...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:41 am, Editorial Team

Anti-smoking Campaign Uses Halo-like FPS Game Theme [VIDEO]
This is a new Video Game Florida Anti-Tobacco Ad that I got to see herein Miami, FL while taking lun...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:23 am, Editorial Team

Nintendo Sued Over Use of Music from 1993 'True Romance'
A Los Angeles film production company sued Nintendo on June12th, alleging that the console manufactu...
Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:17 am, Editorial Team

Microsoft To Let Other Companies make 360 Consoles like PCs
Nuts nuts, yes? Probably. But at least think about it. It\'s not likesuch a move would be without pre...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:45 am, Editorial Team

GAME "very disappointed" by underage sales blunder
High Street retailer GAME has told [i:073abbdd2c]GamesIndustry.biz[/i:073abbdd2c] that it is "v...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:44 am, Editorial Team

EA complains of game review cult, but does one exist?
Is there a kind of "cult of opinion" that controls review scores? Itsometimes seems that r...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:44 am, Editorial Team

Ratings could make UK games more expensive, says Microsoft
Not only could videogames see later release dates in the UK compared tothe rest of Europe, but Briti...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:40 am, Editorial Team

Stringer: Videogames are Sony's 'top priority'
Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of Sony Corporation, has told thecompany\'s annual shareholder meeting ...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:40 am, Editorial Team

Few gamers claim Grand Theft Auto 'hot coffee' cash
$93,660 (£47,201/€59,631) can’t be much to the publisher of [i:947b9d776e]Grand Theft Auto[/i:9...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:39 am, Editorial Team

World of Warcraft was intended to be ad-supported
During a keynote Q&A at the Paris Game DevelopersConference, Blizzard SVP Rob Pardo revealed tha...
Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:37 am, Editorial Team

McCain uses game music in ad, composer a Barack supporter
John McCain broke down some barriers when he used music from [i:c65ae6aad1]Medal of Honor: European ...
Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:50 pm, Editorial Team

NHS orders mass keyboard clean-up
If you’ve read the [URL=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/13/toilet_filthy]reports[/URL]about t...
Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:55 pm, Editorial Team

Obama vs McCain from a Gamers Perspective - Guide inc. VIDEO
[b:107ec5fabf]Mitt Romney[/b:107ec5fabf] Mitt Romney has made computer games part of the thrust of ...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:54 pm, Editorial Team

Games could become 'little more than a marketing tool'
Film Producer Todd Eckert has called for gamesdevelopers to avoid emulating the film industry, sayin...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:51 pm, Editorial Team

Games industry criticises uni games courses - waste of time
Games industry campaign group "GamesUp?" has spoken out against British university games d...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:38 pm, Editorial Team

LATEST FORCAST: Global games industry set for massive growth
The latest forecast for the growthof the global games industry shows that the next four years are bo...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:06 pm, Editorial Team

Wall Street: financial displays use same GPUs as consoles
The street of dreams is paying attention to video game tech these days, and not just in terms of pot...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:51 pm, Editorial Team

Nintendo DS centres open across UK - Download demos free
It\'s hard to believe but there are still people wandering the streets who don\'t own a [URL=http://ww...
Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:33 pm, Editorial Team

Two UK gaming industry pioneers in Queen's Birthday Honours
Britain\'s video games industry received a tribute with the award ofCBEs to David and Richard Darling...
Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:10 am, Editorial Team

No future for PC-exclusive games, says Nvidia
Nvidia\'s VP of content business development, Roy Taylor, has said hebelieves the value of consoles m...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:59 pm, Editorial Team

Your Video Games Are Dropping in Price
Just like new cars drop in price when you drive them off the lot,the resale prices of video games dr...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:50 pm, Editorial Team

Edinburgh Interactive Festival partners with Nintendo UK
The Edinburgh Interactive Festival has announced a partnership withNintendo UK for this year\'s event...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:10 pm, Editorial Team

The Video Game Voters Network is now 150,000 voters strong
The gaming industry is becoming increasingly political as politicians try to pass laws to [URL=http:...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:09 pm, Editorial Team

Saint's Row 2 trailer is "pompous", says analyst
Mike Hickey, analyst at Janco Partners, has criticised a trailer for THQ\'s forthcoming action sequel...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:00 pm, Editorial Team

Red is best for online shooters, say scientists
Research carried out by scientists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark has apparently concl...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:56 pm, Editorial Team

Xbox 360 needs to shake 'urban, adult male feel' for Europe
During last month\'s Nordic Game 2008 conference, a number of industry analysts predicted that Micros...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:49 pm, Editorial Team

Games Up? panel announced for GameHorizon
GameHorizon has announced a Games Up? panel session at the upcomingconference on June 18 - 19, at th...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:44 pm, Editorial Team

Investment partner in International BPO
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Hi, [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]We provide you an op...
Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:41 am, kcsbpo2007

Game Burning: It's the New Book Burning
While many churches are embracing video game nights as a means ofreaching out to youth, a pastor in ...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:49 am, Editorial Team

Older gamers are sticking with the 360, says Nielsen
"Nielsen contacted IGN today to tell us the numbers for the olderdemographic should have been s...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:47 am, Editorial Team

Edinburgh Interactive Festival dates announced
The Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008 has opened up registration withthe announcement that it will...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:38 am, Editorial Team

PlayStation 3 introduces 'in game' advertising
Owners of PlayStation 3 consoles will soon see adverts inside video gamesafter Sony struck a deal wi...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:35 am, Editorial Team

Video game addicts aren't exactly 'shy nerds'
YOU might think of video game addicts as "shynerds", but an Australian study has found tha...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:26 am, Editorial Team

Instant messaging cuts, doesnt cause office interruptions
Instant messaging could bea way to reduce interruptions at the workplace, rather than cause them, as...
Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:57 am, Editorial Team

Xbox Live revamp hints
Microsoft is looking to reorganise Xbox Live content to make it easierfor users to navigate around t...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:38 pm, Editorial Team

Ubisoft: 'Casual gaming audience demaing something better'
Ubisoft\'s Games For Everyone executiveproducer Pauline Jacquey has said that its casual players are ...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:35 pm, Editorial Team

Industry is safe from Jack Thompson for 10 years...
The Florida Bar has called for infamous anti-games lawyer Jack Thompson to be disbarred and prohibit...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:33 pm, Editorial Team

is the Sony PSP 'directionless'? Ubisoft thinks so...
"I think that Sony is disappointed with sales and it\'s unsure as towhich way to take it," ...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:31 pm, Editorial Team

UK companies now discourage remote working says Microsoft
Research from Microsoft reports that less than half of UK companiesare interested in letting staff w...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:29 pm, Editorial Team

Video Games Live announces 50 concert dates
The Video Games Live tours continue to grow. The newest schedule hasbeen released, with shows in the...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:27 pm, Editorial Team

Sex in VIdeo Games (Continued) - [VIDEO]
There\'s not much more Ican say that MFA animation student Daniel Floyd hasn\'t in this greatvideo abo...
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:15 pm, Editorial Team

Who's the YouTube of porn? Youporn comes out top...
Trusty ComScore (SCOR) doesn\'t release metrics for adult sites, sowe ran five big sites through Comp...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:48 am, Jay Taylor

Library and Church Game Nights Violate game licences
While libraries and church groups are increasingly turning to videogame events in order to attract t...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:34 am, Editorial Team

Game developers flee UK for Canada, tax breaks
Gaming, as an industry, has become an economic powerhouse. The [URL=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:28 am, Editorial Team

Top 10 Media Attacks of 2007 on the Video Gaming Industry
[FLASH=480,387]http://www.wegame.com/static/flash/player2.swf?tag=The_Top_Ten_Media_Attacks_of_2007_...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:25 am, Editorial Team

Future and Tesco launch free games magazine
Future publishing has announced a partnership with Tesco, the supermarket chain, to launch a new in-...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:13 am, Editorial Team

The Sims prepare good future: players to interact via web
The Sims - the best-selling computer game of all time and one of the first toexperiment with the ide...
Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:10 am, Editorial Team

Low metascores could result in lower pay for developers
It\'s an age-old warning: "beware of the fine print." MTV Multiplayer\'s Stephen Totilo [URL...
Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:28 am, Editorial Team

Metal Gear Solid creator: 'Convergence of film and games'
[b:d75e647dea]Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima noted that, asgames gain a status on par with Ho...
Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:16 am, Editorial Team

Ubisoft: TV show based on game brands, 3D game production
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has detailed his future vision for thecompany, as he transforms the Frenc...
Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:11 am, Editorial Team

Women in Games Conference - Call for Academic Papers
The [URL=http://www.womeningames.com/]Women in Games Conference[/URL],organised this year by Rare Lt...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:01 pm, Editorial Team

Scottish games industry knowledge sharing facility Dundee
TIGA has welcomed the official opening of the \'WhiteSpace\' learning and knowledge creation centre at...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:59 pm, Editorial Team

EA as tourism: Hong Kong EA Experience detailed
EA may earn its share of hate from the gaming community, but it canalso develop or publish some grea...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:33 pm, Editorial Team

We spend nearly as much time gaming as socializing in UK
European gamers spend nearly as muchtime gaming as they do watching TV or socializing with family an...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:09 pm, Editorial Team

Daily Mail cites video game as proof of terrorist plot
Fear-mongering hacks at [i:5771898c8b]The Daily Mail[/i:5771898c8b] have been caughtmistaking footag...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:07 pm, Editorial Team

NYTimes: Miyamoto the Disney of digital generation
The New York Times has published aglowing article praising Shigeru Miyamoto, labelling him the "...
Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:53 pm, Editorial Team

Jack Thompson 'misconduct'
The judge presiding over a misconduct caseagainst lawyer and fervent anti-videogame campaigner, Jack...
Tue May 27, 2008 5:11 pm, Editorial Team

Disney adopts Pokemon-style expansion plan
The media and entertainment company hoped to mimic the success ofthe Pokemon franchise by using the ...
Tue May 27, 2008 3:37 pm, Editorial Team

'Games turn us into cavemen' says Daily Mail
A report has featured in the Daily Mailnewspaper about how men turn into cavemen when "a chap p...
Tue May 27, 2008 3:36 pm, Editorial Team

Barack Obama is a Popular Mii on Wii
Barack Obama gets around. His Mii, a digital avatar created for the Wii video game console, is curre...
Tue May 27, 2008 2:28 pm, Editorial Team

Make Game nominations: 2008 New Statesman New Media Awards
For the past ten years, the [URL=http://www.newstatesman.com/]New Statesman[/URL] has been holding a...
Sat May 24, 2008 6:14 pm, Editorial Team

Games industry becoming a broadcast model like TV in 40s
The games industry is becoming a broadcast mediasimilar to the way that the movie industry transitio...
Sat May 24, 2008 5:58 pm, Editorial Team

Cultural barriers can hinder outsourcing
One of the major issues in international outsourcing is theexistence of cultural barriers says Ultiz...
Sat May 24, 2008 5:54 pm, Editorial Team

Sunderland: highest percentage of homes with broadband
The data is published in Ofcom’s annual communications market report, whichshows figures for each ...
Sat May 24, 2008 5:17 pm, Editorial Team

Halcyon plans games based on Philip K Dick novels
Halcyon Company - the movie production outfit withfirst options on films based on the stories of Phi...
Sat May 24, 2008 5:12 pm, Editorial Team

GTA IV main character voice actor: low pay - wants respect
Michael Hollick, the voice actor who portrayed NikoBellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, blames his union f...
Sat May 24, 2008 5:10 pm, Editorial Team

Asus and Gigabyte in public argument over claims
A very public argument has broken out between two of the biggestmotherboard manufacturers, Asus and ...
Sat May 24, 2008 5:06 pm, Editorial Team

Santa Monica E3 relocation cost ESA $5m - a good idea?
The decision to move last year\'s E3 Business &Media Summit from Los Angeles to Santa Monica cost...
Wed May 21, 2008 9:12 am, Editorial Team

MICROSOFT / YAHOO: Microsoft will consider fresh Yahoo bid
Microsoft has confirmed it is stilllooking to acquire Yahoo, following the battle against Carl Icahn...
Wed May 21, 2008 8:59 am, Editorial Team

Games must avoid film indsutry mistakes, says producer
Todd Eckert, producer of the Cannes award-winning film Control, has said that while videogames conti...
Wed May 21, 2008 8:38 am, Editorial Team



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