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ELSPA (the Entertainment Leisure & Software Publishers Association) has urged parents looking to purchase games for Christmas to check the game’s packaging for the PEGI age ratings and content descriptors. Games sold in the UK display PEGI ratings – a pan-European gaming-specific rating system instigated and used by all the …

Sony has moved to dispel Microsoft claims that Xbox is outselling the PS3 in Europe, revealing internal figures that say its console has sold 300,000 more units than Xbox 360 in PAL territories. And the company doesn’t feel it has to follow Microsoft and further ignite consumer interest with a …

UK daily broadsheet The Guardian has chosen to stick up for the games industry following an article in yesterday’s NME magazine that attacked titles like Rock Band and Guitar Hero for deterring kids from playing real musical instruments. The NME piece quoted Q Radio presenter David Quantick as stating: Games …

As the struggling Britsoft companyâ??s future hangs in the balance, publishing giants move in on development assets

Casual gaming has hopped on board the topical bandwagon yet again, and this time it’s ITV’s jungle-based reality show I’m A Celebrity: Get Me Out Of Here on the receiving end. To learn more about title, and find out where you can play it, click here to head over to …

Microsoft is beating its chest this morning following the news that the Xbox brand last month enjoyed its biggest ever sales month in its six year history in Europe. Hardware sales for November were up 124 per cent on the same month last year. In contrast, Microsoft claims that European …

CEO of Realtime Worlds to make keynote speech in Newcastle

Were you surprised to see Edge claim this year’s award? We had no idea who was going to win. But we’re grateful to everyone for their support. Edge has been around for a long time – it’s 15 years old – so it’s encouraging that it still gets recognition. What …

Entain8, a UK based sales and distribution company included in the Alten8 Media Group, has announced it will be bringing its previous expansion plans forward after the loss of EUK has left several retailers without an avenue of distribution. The company’s CEO Kay Parbat said: In the light of sad …

Pinnacle Entertainment has been placed into administration, it has been confirmed. MCV broke the news yesterday morning, when internal sources told us software distribution and publishing arm Pinnacle Software was in trouble. BDO has now confirmed that Matthew Tait and David Gilbert were appointed Joint Administrators of Pinnacle Entertainment Ltd …