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Notorious hacker group Anonymous has been accused of being behind an online assault on Thursday that brought down both the Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Eidos websites. Krebonsecurity reports that both sites temporarily displayed an erroneous banner reading "Owned by Chippy1337" and were then downed for several hours. The unfolding …

Ubisoft has announced that sales for the financial year ended March 31st, 2011 came in at 1.03bn Euros. This is a 19 per cent increase from the 871m Euros taken in the previous year. Key sales drivers were the firm’s dance portfolio (including Just Dance), its Kinect and 3DS ranges …

Tables already going fast for next London event

You want me to sign a 1m cheque for a an outdoor advertising campaign that will see our game brand placed on the foreheads of five year old school children across the home counties and British overseas territory Tristan da Cunha? Sure. What’s that – 500k so Kerry Katona will …

Retail sources have for the first time indicated that PS3 console trade-ins have dramatically risen as the controversial PSN outage continues. In the first week of downtime we did not really see any major change in sales or trades,” an unnamed store manager ‘at a major UK retailer’ told Edge. …

While age ratings and the enforcement thereof remains one of the hottest topics in the modern games industry, the Video Standards Council has suggested that all entertainment media could eventually shift toward an advisory rather than a legally-based system. The statement comes in the wake of the news that digital …

Computer science could still be part of the national curriculum, minister claims

UK specialists in advergames discuss the ultimate in impulse gaming

Why do you think you won the MCV Award for best digital distribution team?Within the digital team we strive to not only be the best possible partner for our digital retailers and distributors, but also just as importantly for the end user too. We like to think that we are …

Retailer GAME has named Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft as the headline sponsor of its upcoming GAMEfest consumer show in Birmingham. The deal will see Microsoft branding on all pre-event marketing and afford it a heavy presence at the show itself and a prime space at the venue. MS has …