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With a booming internet market that currently includes approximately 42 million users, the hunger for online gaming is set to rapidly grow in India this year, according to BusinessWeek . Currently only five per cent of India’s web users are active gamers, according to information from ICube, but an increasing …

Joystiq reports that Bill Gates could use his final Consumer Electronics Show keynote to reveal a new Xbox 360 model with an integrated HD-DVD player – putting the console on a par with PS3 and its built-in Blu-Ray functionality. The report adds that platform holder Microsoft could also be preparing …

Halo Wars studio's new base to house 120 staff

Nintendo’s Wii was awarded the console 2007 Customer’s Choice Award, collated by independent review publisher Reevoo . The scores for the next gen consoles were extrapolated from customer reviews, and put the Wii on top overall with 8.78 out of 10, the PS3 second with 8.25 out of 10 and …

Midway’s chairman of the Board Kenneth D. Cron has resigned after three years at the company. Cron, who joined the publisher in 2004, is a former chairman and CEO of Vivendi Universal Games, where he led the company through a billion dollar NASDAQ public offering. He also previously spearheaded the …

SPECIAL FEATURE: 2007 is over so check out our studio hot list for 2008...

2007 may have been â??Year of the Moneyâ?? given the large number of big-name industry consolidations and acquisitions, but it was also a year punctuated by new studios opening. Weâ??ve chosen the ten we think you should keep an eye on in â??08â?¦

Supermarket chain Marks and Spencer could be looking to increase the amount of space it gives games in the New Year – as the retailer prepares for an internal review of the sector’s performance. The company’s games offering currently resides in various ‘technology stores’ dotted around the UK in larger …