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Traditional PR and marketing, competition with rivals, and boxed product – all of these things face extinction when digital downloads take hold. That’s according to a panel of online games experts grilled by industry veteran Phil Harrison at this evening’s London Games Conference. Playfish’s Kristian Segerstrale, Mark Gerhard from Jagex …

Microsoft has dismissed the possibility of streaming technology such as OnLive and Gaikai damagaing its Xbox business for the foreseeable fututure.” Speaking at London Games Conference this evening, Xbox Live EMEA boss Jerry Johnson told BAFTA HQ – packed by industry delegates – that streaming tech was not on an …

ChartTrack director Dorian Bloch has this evening revealed that the firm will start including PC download sales in its charts from the start of 2010. "From the start of next year, whoever is ready to contribute data, be they publisher or digital distributor will be able to come on board …

A market that only offers digital video games would be geeky”, inaccessible – and undo the market expansion the industry has achieved in recent years. That was the view of The Hut product director Gian Luzio at the London Games Conference today. Speaking on a panel entitle ‘The New Food …

The games industry will see a major tipping point towards digital distribution – and finally experience its ‘the iTunes moment – by 2014, according to analyst Nick Parker. Referencing reams of data, and an industry survey which grilled key execs on the future of digital downloads, he said that serious …

Gravity Bear established to develop casual titles across a range of platforms

Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey discussed his vision for the UK games industry under a Conservative Government today at London Games Conference. Here, MCV prints his speech in full… Imagine for a moment you are a politician. You have to make a speech, and you want to highlight a world-beating …

Video games body ELSPA has cemented its board line-up for the 12 months ahead, with some new faces joining the industry’s most established faces at the recent AGM. Andy Payne of Mastertronic is set to serve another year as ELSPA chairman, whilst Nintendo’s UK boss David Yarnton remains vice chairman …

95 per cent of Rally Master Pro first-day downloads were illegal

The Conservative Party this afternoon launched its biggest attack yet on the Government for its treatment of the UK games industry. Speaking at London Games Conference at BAFTA, Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told a packed room that a Tory Government would extend the remit of the Film Council to …