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US-based online games provider continues expansion in South America

American porn actress Belladonna has said that she’d like to do some video game themed work, adding that gaming has already made an appearance in some of her films. I’d love to dress up as my Priest on World of Warcraft and do a scene like that,” she told Original …

Ubisoft’s Just Dance continues to stun the industry as the publisher announces that the game has sold more than two million copies worldwide. The title is also now the fastest-selling new IP from any third-party publisher on the Wii, having reached this sales milestone in less than five months since …

Dead to Rights studio reaches an impressive industry milestone

The big games of February may have belonged to Sega, Ubisoft and Take-Two, but it was EA that emerged as the biggest publisher last month. The publisher’s vast back catalogue drove sales, with FIFA 10, Mass Effect 2 and Dante’s Inferno the key products. Sega was the highest riser in …

The big games of February may have belonged to Sega, Ubisoft and Take-Two, but it was EA that emerged as the biggest publisher last month. The publisher’s vast back catalogue drove sales, with FIFA 10, Mass Effect 2 and Dante’s Inferno the key products. Sega was the highest riser in …

Video games are to play a key role in HMV’s upcoming Easter campaign, which will promote a wide range of entertainment products. The retailer is gearing up for what it considers to be an important sales period with strong advertising in the works for its high-profile activity. Easter is very …

A new site that offers gamers the chance to pay for private video links to gamers of the opposite sex has been forced to temporarily close its beta due to an unexpectedly high level of demand. GameCrush allows gamers to link up to fellow gamers of the opposite sex by …

The final edition of Microsoft’s Project Natal control prototype features technology based on an all-encompassing system-on-a-chip. And Microsoft says that the newly-revealed component will help the company deliver revolutionary controller-free entertainment”. Natal’s tech is now thought to be a modified version of the PS1080 chip – built by Israeli company …

UK players of massively multiplayer online games spent 195m on them last year, a report has found. The Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report also revealed that there are over four million MMO players in Britain, and that UK gamers spent more than any other European country on the genre last …