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Despite a long weekend of shopping in the UK, there has been more or less no movement in this week’s UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top Ten. EA and Valve’s Portal 2 remains in first place with Warner Interactive’s Mortal Kombat holding tight at No.2. EA’s Crysis 2 slips out …

Gargantuan month: we donâ??t even have space for Royal Wedding and Donald Trump jokes

Sony Online Entertainment old database exposed, despite previous assurances

PlayStation Network operator Sony has dismissed claims that hackers who obtained user information from its servers have been trying to sell the data on the black market. "We want to state this again given the increase in speculation about credit card information being used fraudulently," SCEA’s senior director of corporate …

Games developer Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed it was attacked by hackers as part of last month’s PSN hack and that user data has possibly been compromised. In total the firm believes that it has lost around 12,700 credit card numbers with some 24.6m accounts being compromised. The attack took …

UKIE announced last week that director general Michael Rawlinson has decided to leave the organisation, after almost 12 years there. Rawlinson spent his last two years at the trade body – originally named ELSPA – as director general. And during his time in this role he has significantly raised the …

UKIE announced last week that director general Michael Rawlinson has decided to leave the organisation, after almost 12 years there. Rawlinson spent his last two years at the trade body – originally named ELSPA – as director general. And during his time in this role he has significantly raised the …

‘High impact’ TV ads make up the centre point of Dirt 3’s 1m ad campaign. Publisher Codemasters says its ads will run just before and after the game’s release (the title reaches shelves on May 24th) across major terrestrial and satellite channels. The TV campaign strives to create maximum cut through …

Calibur11’s custom Xbox 360 cases will be distributed via Realtime. The new Vault accessories are due to arrive in May and adds to Realtime’s growing console division. The Vault range further strengthens Realtime’s console portfolio and again demonstrates our commitment to delivering exciting products,” said Realtime’s sales director Richard Marsden. …

Kalypso Media has booked ads specifically to promote the premium SKU of The First Templar. The Xbox 360 and PC game is due for release on May 6th and the special edition features a bonus in-game level, a double-sided poster as well as a downloadable soundtrack. A pre-order campaign is …