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As part of its new strategy to widen its membership trade association UKIE has introduced a new 500 membership packaged. It’s hoped the low-cost fee will help attract the emerging wave of online, casual, social and mobile games that the organisation formerly called ELSPA wants to reach. The organisation rebranded …

Scheme to fight pre-owned losses not unpopular, firm says

The chief operating officer of Future Publishing, Simon Wear, has announced his immediate departure from the firm. Wear departs having served a lengthy 18-year stint at the media company and says he intends to spend some time with the company before looking for new opportunities. His former roles at Future …

When Sega published a teaser image for the fifth instalment in the Yakuza series carrying just two words – ‘The End’ – everybody presumed that the popular Japanese gangster series was coming to close. But it seems that the truth is far, far stranger. Siliconera reports that Yakuza: Of The …

Weekly Japanese games mag Famitsu has got the first official details on one of Sony’s worst kept secrets – the HD remakes of PS2 classics Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Andriasang reports that Famitsu actually carries boxart for each game, suggesting that Team Ico’s cult hits will not in …

Rebranded trade group expands remit to online, casual, social and mobile

EA will at its Tokyo Games Show conference this morning lift the lid off its new project in conjunction with Killer 7 and No More Heroes developer Goichi Suda – and it’s called Shadow of the Damned. 1UP reports that the game will see players starring as a motorcycle riding …

Dave Perry on how accessible cloud gaming could reshape every facet of the industry

Outside 167 Wardour Street, West London you used to find a small plaque by the doorbell, inscribed with five letters: ELSPA. Although that acronym literally meant the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, the name stood for many things including anti-piracy, sales charts, age-ratings, and interfacing with Government. But the …

Michael Jackson: The Experience will hit shelves on November 26th for Wii, DS and PSP, Ubisoft has announced. However the Xbox 360 Kinect and PS3 Move versions of the music game have been pushed back to Q1 2011. The title was previously due to arrive in time for Christmas on …