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With the very notion of net neutrality currently under threat, it has emerged that the British Government is to ask ISPs to block all online pornography by default on domestic internet connections. Users wishing to access such material would have to ask providers to have it unblocked. For their ‘friend’, …

Platform holders and publishers at the ready – media regulator Ofcom has announced that product placement on TV will be officially allowed from February 2011. Coming into effect on February 28th, any show carrying such advertising must carry a specific logo for a minimum of three seconds at the beginning …

It’s usually the biggest spending period for the games industry – but the last weekend before Christmas offered no growth for the UK games retail. According to MCV calculations based on exclusive UKIE/Chart-Track data, the UK retail market was worth 78.7m last week – a small drop from 79.6m the …

Sony always said its long-term strategy would pay off for PS3 – and this week the Xmas charts prove it. The UK games charts published by UKIE/Chart-Track show that last week the combined sales of PS3 games listed in the All Prices, All Formats top 10 outnumbered those games sold …

Four out of ten internet users globally now play online games That’s according to a new report by Dutch browser gaming outfit Spil based on data from the company’s own pool of 130 million monthly active users and ComScore. The 2010 State of Gaming Report shows that of the 1.3 …

Spil Games new report highlights the ongoing rise of the online gaming space

Kids spend too much time indoors watching TV and playing games BLAH BLAH BLAH. Let’s cut to the chase. The headline of this press release reads as follows: "One in five schoolchildren can’t tell the difference between a wasp and a bee, a study reveals today." A cutting edge study …

Rovio, PopCap and Backflip games all secretly use â??supercookiesâ?, paper claims

Muzyka and Zeschuk awarded for their â??emotionally engagingâ?? projects

A new version of water-themed digital-only action outing Hydrophobia will arrive on Xbox Live tomorrow for just 800 MSP – that’s 400 MSP cheaper than the first time the game was released. Dark Energy Digital’s aquatic title received a mixed reaction from critics, averaging a rather underwhelming 58 per cent …