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Ed VaizeyShadow Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey was elected as the MP for Wantage and Didcot in May 2005. Since November 2006, he has been the Conservative Party’s Shadow Minister for Culture. He is already well known within the games industry for having strong views on its cultural and commercial …

Leading developers and pioneers of digital distribution unite at the inaugral London Games Conference

The BAFTA Annual Video Games LectureIn association with GAME: Peter Molyneux When: Wednesday October 21st 2009, 18:30Where: BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, W1J 9LNPrice: 7.50Contact: events@bafta.org This year’s BAFTA lecture will be given by Peter Molyneux – founder of Lionhead Studios and creative director at Microsoft Games Studio. The man behind Black …

Witcher developerâ??s holding company now floats on the stock exchange

ELECTRONIC ARTS* Army of Two: The 40th Day* Brutal Legend* Battlefield Bad Company 2 (London only)* Dante’s Inferno* Dragon Age Origins* FIFA 10* Left 4 Dead 2* Mass Effect 2* Need For Speed: Nitro* Need For Speed: Shift* Saboteur We’re looking forward to this year’s Eurogamer Expo and really pleased …

Everyone knows that digital distribution is an important part of the games industry food chain. But just how important is it to consumers? New data from the National Gamers Survey 2009 proves the power of downloaded games, mobile games and games accessed via game portals. The survey, conducted by TNS, …

So when a retailer declines a new release, it’s just a polite way of saying ‘not right now’ or ‘no one’s going to be interested’. After all, book stores don’t stock every book in print, right? And music stores don’t stock every album available, do they? Well, of course they …

The Government’s plans to fund the spread of high speed broadband through taxation is unfair – and could put games’ potential digital renaissance in jeopardy. That was the view from Shadow Culture Minister Ed Vaizey this week, speaking ahead of his keynote address at London Games Conference on Tuesday (October …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has moved quickly to redress reports that the firm is planning to release a Blu-ray drive add-on for Xbox 360. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was quoted yesterday as saying that: Well I don’t know if we need to put Blu-ray in there—you’ll be able to …

Though both DS and PSP are expected to continue to lead the market for quite some time, both Sony’s and Nintendo’s machines have peaked – leaving Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch to drive the future growth of the handheld sector. That’s the prediction of DFC Intelligence, which predicts that Apple’s …