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Crowds have gathered outside the European Parliament in Warsaw over a new SOPA-style bill which could threaten online freedom. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), aims to counter online copyright infringement, as well as counterfeited goods and medicine, reports Gamasutra. The European Union is …

The BBC will release Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock in March for PlayStation Vita and PS3. The game will be download only and available via PSN, with a PC version to follow. Doctor Who fans can check out the first gameplay trailer below, which reveals The Eternity Clock will be …

Revenues in acceleration; Gross App Store sales at about $5bn

'Pretty sad when a company of 2,789 people can't even come up with their own game ideas', says indie dev

Nick Gibson looks at whether microtransactions in games constitutes as gambling

The proposed collaboration between Danish toy giant LEGO and indie smash hit Minecraft is officially go. The joint venture was first mentioned last year when Minecraft was nominated on the LEGO CUUSOO site. It quickly gained the 10,000 online supporters needed for further consideration and has now been approved for …

The High Street might be in tatters as the world’s governments wallow in spiralling pits of debt and despair, but it’s all parties and barbeques and women and jager bombs at Apple HQ in California. The tech giant has just posted record profits for the quarter ending December 31st, driven …

The successor to the Xbox 360 will be six times as powerful as the current machine, fresh reports suggest. IGN claims to have word from sources close to the project” that its GPU architecture will be based on the existing Radeon HD 6670 card. That card, which was launched in …

Market statistics show the UK’s toy industry generated sales worth a total of 2.96 billion in 2011. The figures were released by research firm the NPD Group at this morning’s Toy Fair, and also showed a three per cent year-on-year increase in the industry’s value. By contrast, the UK’s video …

Trade group UKIE pledges to push ahead with PSN and Xbox Live charts