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The people of Manchester are mad for piracy, it would seem. New research from monitoring service Musicmetric – which monitors global BitTorrent activity – found that there was more illegal downloads per person in the city than anywhere else in the UK, the BBC reports. Nottingham came second and Southampton …
Read More »Cloud Control – Square Enix’s Wada and Rogers talk digital gaming
To run any business or team properly, you have to have enormous self-belief that your strategy and vision is the right one. Square Enix president and CEO Yoichi Wada doesn’t just have self-belief, he has one of the most surprising views on the future of the games market. The man …
Read More »iPhone 5 registers 2m pre-orders in one day
Apple has stated that it received over two million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in its first 24 hours of availability. That’s double the one million pre-orders won by the iPhone 4S in its first 24 hours and over triple the 600,000 day one iPhone 4 pre-orders. The handset is …
Read More »UK game jam breaks world record
300 students descend on 48-hour Windows 8 development contest
Read More »The Sun lets rip at Wii U
There are people out there who have accused The Sun of having an anti-Nintendo agenda. Why on earth could that be? Well, today’s astonishing story – Will you be picking up a Wii U? Here’s five reasons not to” – might give you an idea. (As might this fabulous 3DS …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: PES 2013
Whatever you think of its current position in the market, PES is a series that carries a certain emotional resonance with many players. I first played PES upon returning from living in Sri Lanka (where video games are hard to come by) in 2001. The last football game I’d played …
Read More »Critics hail PES 2013 as a return to form for series
We hear it every year, but early indications are that PES 2013 is genuinely the return to form that fans of the series have been craving. Even if you find learning Cruyff turns a turn-off, in PES 2013 there’s one button that it’s crucial to get to grips with, and …
Read More »Free games now account for half of the European games market
New data from Ipsos Media CT and ISFE suggests that free-to-play games accounted for half of the European games market in the last 12 months. By half of the market, that means that F2P accounted for around 50 per cent of titles acquired in the period. It also claims that …
Read More »GMA 2012: Last few tickets remaining
Trade tickets for this year’s Games Media Awards are selling out fast, so act now if you want to make sure you’re at the big night of the year for the UK’s games press. The Games Media Awards take place on Thursday October 18th and return to the super chic …
Read More »BT is GAME’s free store Wi-Fi partner
GAME’s 341 UK stores will offer free Wi-Fi access for their customers in time for Christmas. Telcoms company BT has today been named as the official provider for the service. Customers will be encouraged to access digital information via the free GAME app and in-store QR codes. The introduction of …
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