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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected complaints about a Sony advert for recent PS3 hit Heavy Rain. The BBC reports that the objections stemmed from the depiction of a level in the game where two-sided detective Scott Shelby intervenes (or not, depending on the choices made by the player) …

UPDATE:Statement from Future added below at 12.33, May 12th Robert Price is to leave Future Publishing, according to a video industry trade report. According to Cue Entertainment, the CEO of the firm – responsible for a host of specialist magazines and websites – will soon become the UK MD of …

Though the discovery of a prototype version of Apple’s upcoming fourth iteration of the iPhone landed tech blog Gizmodo in legal hotwater, that doesn’t seem to have stopped a Vietnamese site (which has seemingly since been removed) publishing further pictures of the secretive device. As spotted by Engadget, the device …

Trade association promote efforts to â??champion games industryâ?? in Realtime Worlds sponsored report

The Modern Warfare franchise may never be the same again – that’s the claim of EA Partners boss David DeMartini who thinks that the world-conquering FPS franchise may never recover from the fallout of Activision and Infinity Ward’s disagreement. I don’t like to see that go on in our industry …

Disney Interactive Media has reported losses for both the fiscal quarter and half ending April 3rd this year. While overall the Disney company enjoyed a climb in profits for the period, as revealed by its latest financial report, the division responsible for its games lost $55m in operating results for …

There will indeed be a Wii version of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, publisher Activision has confirmed. In a brief statement released to Eurogamer, the company simply stated: Black Ops will be available on all four platforms, PS3, X360, PC and Wii, on 9th November.” Until this point Activision …

Gareth Betts and Tony Buckley start work at Catalyst Outsourcing Limited

Outspoken EA boss John Riccitiello has sought to defend the firm’s recent efforts to reward customers who buy new copies of its games by bundling one-off DLC codes in the box. The likes of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2 have already included such codes, …

New Sony peripheral devs seek to reinvent one of the most popular genres in gaming