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Next-gen has reports that the Brain Training phenomenon continues to sweep across the globe – claiming the number one spots in both the Spanish and German charts. The listings, courtesy of MC-GfK, run as follows:Spain 1. More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima (DS)2. Big Brain Academy (Wii)3. Assassin’s Creed (PS3)4. …

Sony’s Howard Stringer and Activision’s Bobby Kotick have both said they are unsure whether video games can be fully sustained by in-game advertising. The news comes after EA announced it was to make its new Battlefield game available for free on the internet – and was financially supporting it through …

Steamworks offers sales stats, copy protection and other functions to PC game developers

In part one of this feature UK independent single-format magazine 360 spoke to the bosses of Lionhead, Rare, Codemasters and others about deals for developers and UK studios competing on the global stage. In part two our panel turns its attention to a single console standard, and the Hollywood modelâ?¦

Few will argue that Nintendo owned Christmas ’07, and its philosophy spread, with purpose, to the Porter household. A Wii Remote is the perfect cure for an apparently poorly constructed family. The large part consoles played in my Christmas helped remind me how important 2007 was for gamers. Fortunately, 2008 …

There’s plenty going on at GAME Group – on top of integrating its former rival Gamestation into its existing infrastructure, it continues to broaden its business by reaching out to new consumers and expanding in Europe. We get the full story from CEO Lisa Morgan and David Thomas, deputy CEO …

Analysts may well look back at 2007 as the tipping point when the games industry began to eat itself. So many developers were bought up that we could fill all 900-odd words of this feature listing them all; Vivendi bought Activision and in so doing squared up to a dominant …

3D benchmark firm founds new team to make new IP which drives forward computer graphics

PS3 and Xbox 360 versions set for San Francisco debut

Newly-created role sees Martin Gannholm join casual games firm to oversee its future technology