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Electronic Arts’ recent dominance of the official UK Chart has come to an end – as LucasArts’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed crashes straight into top spot. In the biggest ever release week for a Star Wars game, 48 per cent of sales were on Xbox 360, with 30 per …

There’s a busy day ahead for retail this Friday, with plenty of hard-hitting titles heading for shelves – and with something for everyone many will be hoping for the biggest Friday for quite some time. It’s hard to pick a headline act out of the assorted collection, but Ubisoft will …

ELSPA has told the UK Government that the BBFC is ‘not fit for purpose’ as a ratings system for video games. Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour Party conference today, ELSPA director general Paul Jackson said that the current UK two-tier classification system was confusing – and that …

Publishers: Instead of the nation’s geriatrics wrinkling their brow at your Brain Training clone, you’ve got a warehouse full of returned DS games and a team of wincing sales execs. Retailers: You’ve missed out on this year’s Cooking Mama bargains – and filled up shelves with equine/kitty/puzzle claptrap that you …

The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association has spoken out in support of Atari’s decision to largely abandon boxed product and embrace online distribution. The publishers’ body said that the company’s decision to move 90 per cent of its content online in the near future lent ‘further weight to PEGI’s …

Nvidia's CUDA-accelerated tech to be used in upcoming horror title

EA Sports boss and former Xbox chief says Rare actually has lots of 'flair and creativity'

There are now just a few Trade Tickets left for next month’s Games Media Awards. Taking place at the Jongleurs Comedy Club in Camden on the evening of Thursday, October 16th, the GMAs will be the biggest games media gathering of the year, with awards going to the best writers …

Sonic creator's studio teams up with Sega for a game that 'even penguins can play'

In the fashion that has become typical of the Halo developer, Bungie has posted an ambiguous message on its website that most are presuming to be the preamble to the unveiling of a brand new project. Under the header ‘Keep it Clean’, the message, which was posted by Bungie member …