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Minister for state for culture. media and sport Margaret Hodge will be the star speaker at ELSPA’s Annual General Meeting on October 22nd. Hodge is set to outline the Government’s position in relation to the games industry, and will follow it up with an open question and answer session. We …

Activision’s global head of publishing and its European boss have revealed to MCV that the company will continue to enter new games genres to boost its performance in Europe following on from its acquisition of UK racing specialist Bizarre Creations last week. The publisher plans to collaborate with the former …

Activision’s global head of publishing and its European boss have revealed to MCV that the company will continue to enter new games genres to boost its performance in Europe following on from its acquisition of UK racing specialist Bizarre Creations last week. The publisher plans to collaborate with the former …

Microsoft’s iPod rivalling Zune player will not be housing games in the near future as they don’t offer good customer satisfaction”. That’s according to former Xbox strategy manager J Allard, who is heading up the Zune project for Bill Gates. Speaking to Reuters after the launch of a new, updated …

Microsoft’s iPod rivalling Zune player will not be housing games in the near future as they don’t offer good customer satisfaction”. That’s according to former Xbox strategy manager J Allard, who is heading up the Zune project for Bill Gates. Speaking to Reuters after the launch of a new, updated …

Nintendo is set to please the green brigade with the release of Chibi-Robo: Park Control in the US. The publisher is giving away free tree seedlings with a limit number of units of the environmentally-conscious game, which sees players cleaning up a parks, building park equipment and defeating toxic enemies. …

Nintendo is set to please the green brigade with the release of Chibi-Robo: Park Control in the US. The publisher is giving away free tree seedlings with a limit number of units of the environmentally-conscious game, which sees players cleaning up a parks, building park equipment and defeating toxic enemies. …

I’ve enjoyed all of those in the past week, along with a ‘moon’ from a male friend, a bitch-slap, a bite, a lick and a hug. I’ve also been sent presents of a couple of kissing otters and a cute penguin. And discovered that I score 186 (very good, by …

I’ve enjoyed all of those in the past week, along with a ‘moon’ from a male friend, a bitch-slap, a bite, a lick and a hug. I’ve also been sent presents of a couple of kissing otters and a cute penguin. And discovered that I score 186 (very good, by …

Halo 3 Pumped a staggering 17 million into UK retail in its first week on sale. The game made up 68 per cent of all Xbox 360 titles sold, pushing the format to its highest ever software sales week. And it wasn’t only games that benefitted – Xbox 360 hardware also …