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Around 20m people tuned in to watch this weekend’s X Factor finals – but it’s not just Simon Cowell cashing in on the phenomenon. Games publishers have been riding 2010’s wave of X-hype, with every episode this year featuring more games ads than ever. For Ubisoft, the show has proven …

Studio 'unable or unwilling' to support Stuart Black's vision, dev claims

Sony’s PS3 will add to significant strings to its digital content bow this week with the addition of streaming content services from both Channel 4 and ITV this week. That’s according to The Guardian, which claims that the launch will mark a change of strategy for ITV which, until now, …

Amazon has stated that the outage that it suffered on Satudrady was a result of hardware failure and not online ‘hacktivism’ as has been claimed. An spokesman for the online retailer told Reuters that: The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in …

Amazon’s own-branded monochrome e-reader Kindle is proving a surprisingly popular games machine. Kotaku spotted that according to the retailers Kindle charts, which show the best selling titles of the last 90 days, eight of the top 12 best sellers for the device were games. Games also managed to oust books …

Stonetrip announces limited seasonal offer on popular engine

Bethesda community manager Nick Breckon has confirmed via Twitter that the fifth title in the studio’s popular Elder Scrolls fantasy series, Skyrim, will use a new in-house engine. The game, officially revealed at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, was originally thought to be making use of the id Tech …

New horror game InSane has been confirmed and will arrive in 2013 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The title is being produced by Red Faction developer Volition Inc and overseen by film director Guillermo del Toro, known for his work on the Hellboy films and cult hit Pan’s Labyrinth. …

'There is collaboration opportunity maybe more than competitiveness' says CEO Namba

Electronic Arts has released an app based around the Need For Speed Autolog. The Autolog feature debuted in the recently released Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit and enables gamers to directly compare their best times and scores – essentially creating a dedicated social network for the game. The new app …