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Industry vet Mike Mika on the convergence of social media

ELSPA grafted for 12 long months to convince Labour to make PEGI the UK’s sole ratings system for games – but the real work’s only just begun. Tim Ingham gets the full story from Michael Rawlinson… What are your initial reactions to the Digital Britain report?I think it’s a fantastic …

The next instalment in DICE’s popular multiplayer war series Battlefield 1943 will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 next week, publisher EA has confirmed.

 Xbox 360 owners will get a one-day head start of their PlayStation rivals when the game arrives on Xbox Live on July 8th, priced at …

Non-industry exec brought in to strengthen organisation

The rapidly changing in-game payment landscape in focus...

3D video games won’t be mass market for at least another five years, Data Design Interactive has told MCV. The casual games specialist is to launch one of the first 3D video games, Battle Rage: The Robot Wars – which comes with 3D glasses – ahead of Ubisoft’s highly anticipated …

Sony had planned to release a ‘network centric’ model of the PSP ever since the beginning, according to an interview on website GameBusiness.jp. In an interview with the head of SCE’s product planning division, Naoya Matsui, it has been revealed that the company was simply waiting for the digital pipeline …

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Wii’s hardcore gaming credentials have taken another knock with the news that one of its leading mature brands is unlikely to appear again on the system. No More Heroes, a title from Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture, is one of the leading hardcore titles on the system and a sequel is …

Some good news for Blu-ray at last. New numbers from the British Video Association show that 3.1m of the hi-def discs have been sold so far in 2009 – that’s a 231 per cent increase on the same period last year. The knock-on has of course been a dip in …