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EA’s The Sims 3 has wrestled the top spot from UFC 2009: Undisputed, marking the second time a PC game has topped the charts this year. Sega’s Empire: Total War enjoyed the same success back in February, which was the first PC No. 1 since Football Manager back in 2007. …

Controversial political body The Pirate Party has won a seat in the European parliament after capitalising on the pro-Pirate Bay movement in homeland Sweden. The official website of the party, which has no official affiliation with the headline-grabbing BitTorrent site Pirate Bay, states that it wants to fundamentally reform copyright …

Washington-based developer on the receiving end of unfamiliar anger from fans

Empire administrator KPMG is to sell off 212,000 boxed PC and console games from the defunct publisher next month to the highest bidder. Parties that have some interest in buying the stock are being invited to view the haul in Birmingham on Monday, June 8th between 9am and 1pm, by …

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Rick Gibson on the democratisation of distribution models

Ex-Ensemble, ex-Microsoft game designer Graeme Devine now working at Apple, but is he still making games?

FIFA producer David Rutter feels that it is time for the press to stop attacking EA Sports – as the firm attempts to top last year’s groundbreaking FIFA release. Rutter is the man tasked with meeting EA Sports president Peter Moore’s ambitious targets for FIFA 2010, which include reaching an …

Apple reported to be hiring in-house game devs

E3â??09: FreeStyleGames: â??Itâ??s been very difficult to commercialise mashupsâ?