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GfK has bought up a further 46 per cent of ChartTrack shares, meaning that a new UK charts authority, GfK ChartTrack Limited, has emerged. Together, both ELSPA and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) still own 45 per cent of the shares in the new company. "We are delighted to …

It’s ‘as you were’ for the top three in this week’s All Format charts from ESLPA/ChartTrack. Nintendo’s Wii-exclusive Super Smash Bros Brawl claims its second week as the top selling games in the UK, while EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company and LucasArts’ LEGO Indiana Jones are placed in second and thord …

SPECIAL REPORT: Rory Cellan-Jones on why 'mainstream media has woken up to the power of gamesâ??

And Revolution chief heralds NESTA fundâ??s arrival as opportune for independent developers

NESTA-funded online portal will help aid job-sharing with industries such as film and TV

EA’s giant franchise The Sims has joined forces with clothes retailer H&M to unleash a gamer designed outfit in real life stores. Over 1,000 would be fashion designers used The Sims 2 design tool to create an outfit that would feature in The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Runway, a virtual …

In an interview with Gamasutra , director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live has stressed that Wii is nothing more than a ‘novelty’, while talking up 360 as the console that Wii owners will graduate to. "Everyone says that eventually the novelty will wear off, right? I …

Localised DS games for Korea planned while Sony will help train Taiwanese developers

Lucasfilm's game development studio in the region certainly thinks so

Game, which also works on pogo.com, looks to trump unofficial Scrabulous