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A new, very special category has been added to The Games Media Awards night – the Games Media Legend Award, sponsored by System 3. This is one for the real pioneers of video games journalism. The winner will be drawn from the ranks of those who were laid the foundations …

Revenues generated by Sony’s PSP handheld appear to be grinding to a halt as consumers save their pennies for the new Slim & Lite version of the console. According to ChartTrack statistics, last week was the worst sales period for the handheld since launch. Sony blamed the slowdown on anticipation …

The Japanese video games market was up 22.5 per cent year on year in August, as Nintendo leads the charge with huge sales figures for Mario Party 8, DS and Wii – the latter of which outsold the PS3 by a margin of three to one. The majority if the …

Cash and publishing deals available in Casual Games Association Innovate 2007 awards

Senior execs from Havok and ATI join programming team at Stockholm studio

A television psychologist best known for her work on BBC TV’s The House Of Tiny Tearaways is to spearhead the Government’s review of the availability of violent video games. Dr. Tanya Byron will talk to both parents and the interactive entertainment industry before reporting her findings to the Department for …

GameBrains says deal will help studio expand from boutique status to 'development powerhouse'

German studio's Asian studio working with MTV on new 'entertainment channel'

Monolith's Project Original first internal game to help drive publishing push

Nintendo UK has hired The Red Consultancy as its new exclusive third-party PR agency. As predicted by MCV last week, Red will replace nine-year partner Cake Media, which handled the hugely successful launches of Wii, DS and DS Lite. Red takes up the reins of the Nintendo account with immediate …