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LucasArts’ Lego Indiana Jones has become the first game in six weeks to outsell Rockstar’s GTA IV, according to official ChartTrack/ELSPA data. The game replaces GTA IV at the top of the All Formats chart, having outsold it by three-to-one over the past week. Sales of the title are split …

A leading psychiatrist in the treatment of online game addiction has revealed that some World Of Warcraft users are more ashamed of being addicted to the game than to online porn. Speaking to The Boston Globe, Dr Jerald Block spoke about the rise in internet addiction and some of the …

Warwick-based event to feature talks from Microsoft, Bioware and SCEE

The Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008 will take place between August 10th and 12th this year at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre – and registration is now open for those who would like to attend . The festival will feature a two-day conference program, networking events and an expanded EIF Games …

Mobile games publisher issues open invitation to mobile and handheld developer communities

After last week laying off 100 staff at its San Francisco HQ, fresh reports say LucasArts will fire its remaining 100 staff as the company prepares to withdraw from internal development completely. Shacknews says a ‘reliable source’ has told the site that George Lucas’ games development studio will move towards …

Russian games publisher 1C has announced its first games developed for multiple platforms – and revealed it is targeting global growth with the two games. Internally-made Captain Blood is a Xbox 360 and PC Caribbean-themed game inspired by the novels by Rafael Sabatini. "1C is using cutting-edge technology, including the …

Event returns in August, having moved to cityâ??s International Conference Centre

The head of US gamers’ consumers group the Entertainment Consumers Association has said that he knows of two more games companies that are planning to leave US publisher body the Entertainment Software Association. Hal Halpin told the Washington Post that a duo of firms were set to join Activision, Vivendi …

Sony’s PSP continues to dominate the Japanese hardware market, after clocking up 270,750 sales in May. According to data exclusively given to MCV by our media partner Famitsu/Enterbrain, the handheld took 37.3 per cent of all console sales in the month. It was followed by Wii, which shifted 220,052 units …