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March 2nd brings with it an end to the internal clock issue that crippled Sonyâ??s console

Studio heads Vince Zampella and Jason West reportedly escorted out by Activision security, publisher expects litigation

The world’s PS3s are working again. After a day of panic and a what must have been a very long and nervous night for Sony execs, the internal clock bug that saw around 92 per cent of the globe’s PS3 consoles stop working correctly yesterday has been defeated thanks to …

Sony has claimed that it hopes to have solved the glitch problems affecting the vast majority of PS3 owners within the next 24 hours – and added that owners of older ‘fat’ machines should not turn on their consoles in the interim. We hope to resolve this problem within the …

One of the largest names in book publishing has reportedly set up an internal games-focused team with then intention of creating original stories specifically for video games, as well as offering narrative advice to developers. WSJ reports that Bertelsmann’s Random House unit is looking to sell two original games projects …

Video games have come under fresh attack after a North American newspaper columnist accused them of promoting the devil and portraying God as an enemy. The story, published by Philadelphia’s The Bulletin, opens with the remarkable claim that even the most hard-core gamers are sounding the alarm about the rise …

Staff writer steps up to key position on leading industry magazine

You can find all the details online here. There were, as there always are, some safe bets for nominees. Activison, Ubisoft, EA, Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Nintendo all have seven or more nominations each. GAME and sister chain Gamestation share five nominations. And while the event champions smaller companies as …

Nintendo’s unstoppable motion-sensing home console Wii has now passed the 10m unit sales barrier in the company’s homeland of Japan, Kotaku reports. Being more specific, the Wii has now sold 10,009,736 units in Japan. Interestingly, it took the machine 170 weeks to reach the milestone – 39 weeks longer than …

The former boss of Swedish Battlefield developer DICE has slammed Nintendo’s Wii for being, in his words, a toy and not an entertainment focused product”. Wii, to me, I would describe it as a virus that doesn’t stick,” the dev told GamingUnion, as spotted by CVG. It’s a toy, people …