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Whilst the tabloid press may like us to believe that the games industry is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, ESRB stats have shown that Mature rated titles are now accounting for 50 per cent less of the market than they were in 2005. Next-gen quotes ESRB president Patricia …

Japan’s hunger for all things Nintendo looks set to continue into 2008 with the news that the firm’s latest Wii outing Super Smash Bros Brawl has sold 820,000 copies in its first week on the shelves. The colourful fighter outsold its nearest rival, Capcom’s PS3 version of its gothic slasher …

2K Games is to bring the latest in the Duke Nukem series to the global market – but is still without a release date for the title. The company will publish Duke Nukem Forever on ‘multiple formats’ according to developer 3D Realms – most likely to include both PS3 and …

RealArcade, GameTrust, GameHouse, Atrativa, RealArcade Mobile and Zylom now called RealGames

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"