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Grainger Games is subverting expectations and transforming itself into a serious games brand by hiring retail veterans. MCV speaks to the new-look senior management team to find out what comes next. You have secured some retail veterans from not just Gamestation and HMV, but also Holland & Barrett and Asda. …

UKIE members will get a ten per cent discount on a full price ticket to the London Games Conference. The games trade organisation has signed on as an official partner of the November 10th event which looks at new digital business models for games publishers, retailers and developers. Keynotes at …

Shuhei Yoshida says 'dangerous kinds of interactivity' is just years away

UK games industry charity GamesAid will hold a charity pool tournament on September 1st. The tournament is being sponsored by European manufacturing specialists OK Media. It will be held at the Hurricane Rooms, Kings Cross and kicks off 6pm. Entry to the competition costs 20 per person. Players will need …

Trade group members get ten per cent off LGC tickets; Event set for November 10th

Immaculate graphical fidelity no longer a dream, says Sony boss

Following its surprise discontinuation last week, HP’s ‘fire sale’ of TouchPad tablets resulted in brisk sales and rapid selling out of stock over the weekend in the United States. Following the announcement of a withdrawal from WebOS powered hardware, HP again cut the price of the TouchPad to an astonishing …

Gesture devices will eventually grow from their 'many limitations', says Shuhei Yoshida

Last week’s Gamescom 2011 was an unprecedented success. In total 275,000 visitors attended the trade and consumer video games show, beating all previous records for the event and bettering 2010 by eight per cent. 557 companies spanning 39 countries were in attendance, with 257 exhibitors. Over 5,000 media reps were …

Consumers hoping to see an Xbox 360 price cut to counter the recent drops on PS3 look to be in for some disappointing news. When asked by VG247 if Microsoft is preparing a hardware price drop of its own, European interactive entertainment VP Chris Lewis responded: No. As you can …