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Queen's University Belfast recognises services to games industry

RealNetworks survey find that 90 per cent are happy to watch ads before and during game sessions

With many predicting that the hi-def DVD war is fast approaching an end, and an end that will be marked with a Blu-Ray victory, Microsoft has slashed the price of its HD-DVD Xbox 360 drive in North America to $129.99. This represents a discount of $50 – and means that …

Gordon Brown’s mug is in stark contrast. There’s the Pillsbury Doughboy chin, for a start. And that moistened, sloppy mini-stroke of a mouth, which looks as if it demands a sodium chloride gobstopper just to stop it dribbling on the PM’s size nines. Why the sudden obsession with the visages …

A Whitehall leak to Scotland On Sunday last week suggested that Brown was ready to introduce an aggressive ‘crackdown’ on violent video games in the wake of the Byron Review, which will recommend the introduction of BBFC ratings for all software titles when it is published next month. Brown’s choice …

Pirates of the Caribbean director says designers should have ideas which make executives "shit themselves"

Funcom has suffered declining operating losses, as well as a decline in revenues during the fourth quarter of 2007. The developer of upcoming MMO, Age of Conan, has reported that group operating losses increased from $1 million to $3.1 million in the fourth quarter. The company has also revealed that …

Double Fusion has announced a partnership with Spill Group, a generator of online game traffic. The video game advertising provider is set to serve Spill’s Casual Games portals with exclusive open ads for GamesGames.com and GirlsGoGames.com. The partnership includes the sales of pre-and post-roll advertising, custom sponsorships and web inventory, …

I-play research claims casual gamers are twice as likely to play mobile games

Designers of casual games must stop copying each other and look to new ideas, says Chris Early