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GAME is to open 260 stores across the UK and Ireland at midnight tonight for the launch of GTA IV. In addition, these stores will re-open their doors at 7.00am – and will be joined by every one of GAME’s 414 UK stores. GAME is advising customers that only those …

Nintendo development legend Shigeru Miyamoto has said that spending too long playing a video game is not good” – and encouraged his consumers to get outside. Speaking in an interview with The Times, Miyamoto said that he makes sure his own children get out in the sunshine as well as …

Chinese WoW operator grabs share of Korean developer for $38 million

Deal worth CAD$4m to help build an 'integrated video game company'

Austrian publisher puts out public call for a studio to work on existing owned property

'I ask if theyâ??ve ever played the game. Invariably they havenâ??t,' says Benzies

Prospective attendees have until end of the week to register

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants has hit out at Rockstar for basing GTA IV’s gang activity around Eastern European immigrants. The main protagonist in the title, Niko Bellic, is an Eastern European immigrant in the US. The JCWI has told The Times that it disagrees with a …

GAME boss Lisa Morgan has given her first ever national newspaper interview to The Daily Telegraph – and the newspaper has praised the business acumen of the retailer’s CEO. The piece charts Morgan’s life from being a buyer at now-defunct chain Tandy when she was 19-years old, through her roles …

National Newspaper The Times has printed an opinion piece pleading that GTA IV should not be ‘controlled by officialdom’, admitting that Tuesday’s release is the ‘cultural event of the week’. However, a basic error has sneaked into the editorial which may seem laughable to anyone involved in the video games …