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Two weeks after we revealed that The Official Charts Company was negotiating to integrate games downloads into its UK music Top 40, the body has told MCV that the outcome is not necessarily a certainty. The OCC today told MCV that it could not be sure that games download data …

Sony’s VidZone, a new streaming music video service that CasualGaming.biz once dubbed as PS3’s answer to Spotify, has nabbed a major exclusive in the form of an early peek of U2’s brand new video. Click here to take a short and painless trip over to CasualGaming.biz for the full story.

Whilst official word is still yet to emerge from the Shiny Media camp following news of its entering into administration yesterday, a new company based on many of its assets is already emerging from the shadows.

The Guardian reports that most of Shiny Media’s assets have been bought up by new …

Lionhead co-founder discusses the illusion of humanity, and why it works

The second prong in EA’s three-tiered reinvention of its massively popular Need for Speed series has been given a firm release date in the UK and US. Need for Speed: Nitro, the Wii and DS versions of the racing series, will be released in the UK on November 20th. The …

With every revision of the PSP that comes and goes the lust for a second analogue stick on the PSP increases – and Sony has now admitted that the feature very nearly became a reality with the upcoming PSPgo. Speaking in the latest issue of GameInformer (via Kotaku), Sony development …

Visceral Games COO Michael Condrey and GM Glen Schofield allegedly out

Ubisoft, Rebellion, Realtime Worlds and Blitz execs meet in Westminster

Speaking at the CGA’s ongoing Casual Connect event in Seattle, Nintendo of America’s senior director of product development Tom Prata has predicted that despite the recent boom in the target audience of the console game market the sector could still be set for 50 per cent more growth in the …

The latest research from TNS Worldpanel Entertainment suggests that the average selling price for video games has fallen over the last year. In the 52 weeks ending May 24th 2009, the average price across all formats fell to 21.97, a decline of two per cent, according to the firm. The …