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Publisher THQ has urged the three biggest companies in control of the modern video games market to rethink the fundamentals of their content delivery strategies and embrace emerging platforms such as microtransactions. The comments come as THQ CEO Brian Farrell prepares to release the latest version of MX vs ATV. …

Service provider adapting to an increasingly online world

Gaming tournament firm launches social network app ahead of roll-out onto mobile and multi-platform

Mainstream magazines that feature game content have suffered a severe decline in readership, according to ABC audits. Magazines including Zoo, FHM, Nuts and Loaded have seen as much as 50,000 fewer readers. Film publications including Empire and Total Film have seen year-on-year readership falls of 22,000 and 3,000 individuals respectively. …

Binary Tweed managing director wants channels open and ideas unrestricted

Selected developers offered early access to SDK

Pokemon Trainer Challenge is a new online version of the Pokemon Trading Card Game, distributed in the UK by Esdevium Games (www.pokemontcg.com). The new website joins a growing number of toy ranges with an online element, such as Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters and Webkinz. The Pokemon game will initially feature …

Future Publishing was founded on video gaming, and it’s remained central to our business ever since. Over the last 30 years we have built up an unrivalled portfolio of magazines, websites and events that reach a larger group of gamers than any other specialist publisher – over 1.9 million every …

UKIE boss Michael Rawlinson explains how UK studios can help themselves

The UK has a heritage in developing video games that we can be very proud of. However, if we are to continue to produce world-class interactive entertainment, we need to ensure that the small and medium-sized businesses that make up so much of the UK’s games industry have the right …