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We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and video games’ total share of all TV campaigns. Games and consoles TV advertising last week recovered from its lowest point year to date, recording 256 Men 16 to 34 TVRs. This is in line with 2010’s advertising pressure of 259 …

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Thirteen years of hard work, ambitious goals and pioneering games comes to a close

Crytek boss excited to see what indies will do with the SDK

Germany has removed restrictions from Doom and Doom II after a ban on selling it to teenagers spanning 17 years. In 1994, Germany put it on an index of controlled titles, believing that it could harm youths due to its level of violence. The video game could only be bought …

The astonishing PlayStaion Network crisis that dominated the headlines earlier this year doesn’t seem to have dented the public appetite for PSN. Gamasutra reports that Sony CEO Howard Stringer told an audience at the IFA electronics show that since the restoration of the service in March an additional 3m users …

Remember that mysterious third person Call of Duty game? It now looks like it’s unlikely to ever see the light of day. The studio that was working on it, Sledgehammer Games, has confirmed that the project has been canned. And with Sledgehammer now one of the multiple studios working on …

Company stung by stockholder deficit of $5.2m

It may not be making the social gaming strides many would expect, but it’s impossible argue that Activision’s digital strategy is not paying off. Speaking in an analyst day conference call yesterday, the publisher said that its digital revenues for the year ending June 2011 have hit $1.7bn. That’s a …

The Metropolitan Police arrested two suspects today for conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The arrests were made as part of an investigation with the FBI, South Yorkshire Police and other law enforcement bodies into hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec, and in particular the activities of …