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Last week, audio specialist Side founded new firm Sidelines, a specialist agency for games writers, offering writing services to developers and representing scribes looking to work in games. We caught up with company head Sini Downing and writer Justin Villiers to find out moreâ?¦

Former Nintendo Europe boss leaves mobile gaming firm

People bemoaned its lack of exclusive software for the first year of its life, but the PS3 big-hitters have begun to arrive, and none come bigger than Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4 – so news of a possible demo next month is understandably reason to get excited. CVG reports that …

Led by chairman Sean Sullivan and finance director Andy Leonard-Myers, the buyout gives Pinnacle and label Windsong the opportunity to provide more flexible third party logistics services for smaller organisations in the same marketplace,” says a statement from the firm. It also plans to expand its offerings to cover marketing …

Session to showcase company's Enlighten tech

Fashion retailer Next has laid out its plans to claw away market share from more established games retailers with a giant increase in its interactive entertainment offering. The firm has added over 300 games products to its latest Next Directory catalogue – and it could begin stocking the likes of …

Zavvi is to make significantly more space for games in-store after the category shone for the retailer during the Christmas period. The general entertainment store looks set to reduce its music offering to make way for the move, the second time it has increased its dedicated games space in under …

New publishing powerhouse Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has finalised its core games team – but expect further high profile recruits as the media giant picks up momentum in the UK. After setting up a dedicated office for the region and buying Lego Star Wars developer Traveller’s Tales late last year, …

Though there’s been no official word as of yet, rumours are circulating that THQ has pulled the plug on the PS3 version of its upcoming war-themed FPS Frontlines: Fuel of War, CVG reports. Speculation arose over the weekend after reports that some US retailers were informed of the cancellation. The …

The Times’ opinion columnist Janice Turner has stuck the knife into the video games industry in an article entitled ‘Xbox is crack for kids’. In the piece, which appeared in Saturday’s newspaper, Turner calls consoles ‘Satan’s Sudoku’. She goes on to write that children are ‘mentally imprisoned’ when playing games, …