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â??Three or four year hiatusâ?? before the coalition returns to the issue

European sales of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood have led the brand past the 20m milestone – and proved wrong those doubters at retail, says Ubisoft. Speaking last week as MCVuk.com revealed the game hit 1m copies sold across Europe, EMEA sales and marketing chief Geoffroy Sardin said the success silenced those …

Publisher Ubisoft has implemented an innovative security measure in the DS version of Michael Jackson: The Experience – the South African vuvuzela horn made famous in this summer’s World Cup. Eurogamer reports that people attempting to play the hacked version of the game via a downloadable ROM are founding that …

Cloud computing firm OnLive has made a major step towards addressing the single biggest complaints against the service so far – the price. A new payment option called PlayPack allows gamers unlimited access to a selection of titles for just $9.99 a month. The catch? Unlike the comprehensive PlayPass option, …

US-based Words With Friends developer renamed â??Zynga With Friendsâ??

The Netherlandsâ?? based event to focus on â??Games Anywhereâ??

Microsoft has said that it currently has around 12.5m paying subscribers to Xbox Live. Subscriptions to the service currently cost 40 a year in the UK. Of our 25m members, about half of them are subscribers to the business and pay us about $60 a year for that,” Microsoft’s head …

A sequel to Atari’s 2009 console hit Ghostbusters: The Video Game will skip retail altogether and instead be released on Xbox Live, PSN and PC. USA Today reports Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime will once again see players assume the role of the Ghostbusting rookie hired to the team in the …

Ahead of Panorama’s ‘Addicted to Games?’ broadcast next Monday, video games trade body UKIE has highlighted the lack of any scientific evidence linking video games to addiction. There is no official medical diagnosis of video game addiction, either from the American Medical Association or the World Health Organization,” director general …

Online micro-payments and game purchases now available in store