Publishing

Yet Jeremy Hunt admits UK needs to stand up to Canada

Microsoft has significantly grown its audience – and it has the accolades to prove it. The platform holder took home the Best Family Game award at this year’s Video Game BAFTAs for Kinect Sports. And the firm’s UK boss says that this represents a major shift in audience for Xbox. …

UK mobile phones provider O2 has announced that it will not be stocking Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play from April 1st as planned. In a blog post, O2’s head of testing Stuart Hibberd blamed the decision on software bugs and SE’s inability to resolve lingering concerns in time for the official …

People Pilot actively collaborating with external studios

Industry association picks most popular candidates to emulate ballot process

What’s the mood like in the Nintendo camp now that the big day’s nearly here? Yeah, everyone’s feeling good. There’s been some fantastic activity in the last couple of months, from us and from retail, and I think that’s got everyone in a really positive frame of mind for the …

Sainsbury’s has seen a small increase in profit of one per cent during its fourth financial quarter. Profits rose 2.3 per cent year-on-year (or 4.7 per cent including fuel). Total product sales increased 3.5 per cent (or 6.8 per cent including fuel). Sales of non-food goods grew at more than …

The hacker at the centre of an increasingly bizarre legal battle with PS3 has reportedly fled to South America. VGHQ has unearthed Sony documents claiming that George Hotz has been removing key components from his electrical equipment so as to hide crucial information the company is trying to unearth as …

Briton Ashley Mitchell stole $12 million in online currency

John Broomhall speaks to BAFTA-award winning composer Jason Graves about his work on Visceral's horror title