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Dr John Charlton of Bolton University has discovered that game playing can dominate users’ lives, causing them to miss sleep and meals. Dr Charlton studied almost 400 regular players of online role-playing game Asheron’s Call. The studied showed that the closer the gamers came to being addicted, the more they …

Home represents arguably the biggest single development in next-gen gaming, and is certainly massive news for PS3 – so it’s not surprising that talk of a public beta for the virtual world service has sent the internet into a frenzy. A poster on Sony’s US PlayStation blog has uploaded scans …

Seemingly just moments after snapping up the rights to all things Tom Clancy, Ubisoft has announced a new title branded with the anti-terror author’s moniker – HAWX. Standing for High Altitude Warfare X, the Ubisoft Bucharest developed title will, as the name suggest, bring the flight sim genre to the …

With professional quality plug-ins, superior vocal suppression and sophisticated surround upmixing, SingStarâ??s audio technology and production processes have hit the high notes.

What's changed in the games development recruitment market in the past year?

LucasArts has named its new president – current COO of Electronic Arts Los Angeles Darrell Rodriguez. Rodriguez will officially join LucasArts in mid-April. Rodriguez, who LucasArts describes as an ‘avid gamer’ has previously contributed work to EA franchises such as Medal of Honor, The Lord of the Rings: Battle for …

COO of Los Angeles studio steps in to replace recently departed Jim Ward

The New York Comic Convention, which will run in The Big Apple later this month, will include an airing for Gears Of War 2. In what will presumably be a rolling demo, Kotaku reports that Epic Games president Michael Capps and Gears of War scriptwriter Joshua Ortega will be offer …

Despite eye-catching rumours to the contary, Microsoft has insisted that Lite-On will not be manufacturing Blu-ray drives for its Xbox 360. According to TechRadar.co.uk, a Microsoft rep stated: Lite-On is not manufacturing Blu-ray drives for Xbox 360. As we have stated, games are what are driving consumers to purchase game …

A report send out by games market monitor The NPD Group claims that 72 per cent of citizens living in the United States played a video game across 2007, representing an 8 per cent increase from 2006. According to NPD, 40 per cent of United States residents played an online …