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The Department of Culture, Media and Sport – which will be at the forefront of Gordon Brown’s proposed review of children’s access to adult video games – has outlined its intentions to re-examine the way in which adult rated video games fall into the hands of children. Talking exclusively to …

Project management site aimed at indie and mod developers

The retailer today announced better than expected financial results, with its total group sales up 12.2 per cent for the 18 weeks ending September 1st and like for like sales up 5.8 per cent. HMV UK and Ireland fared better still, with sales up 12.5 per cent, with a like …

SCEA’s director of corporate communications David Karraker has left the company after only a year in the role. Next-gen reports that the news was broken in an e-mail from Karraker, in which he said that the decision to leave Sony was very difficult.” The news comes one year to the …

At last night’s second MCV/Xbox 360 Industry Pub Quiz, EUK proved to be the top brains in games after an evening of taxing general knowledge, boozing and merriment. Scooping the top spot by just one point, EUK fought off second place GAME and former champions Konami in third to come …

Majesco, US publisher of Cooking Mama, has freed up $6 million through selling around 4 million of its shares. According to an SEC filing, the firm will be putting the raised funds towards working capital, reported Next Generation . The additional funds also provide valuable flexibility, stability and agility to …

Just a year after it first put iPod games made by third parties up for sale on iTunes, Apple has unveiled the latest in its line of MP3 players with the new ‘classic’ model featuring a screen designed to suit games. The new iPod classic was unveiled today alongside the …

Apple CEO Jobs unveils new MP3 players with better screens for playback of games and video

He’s got some winning advertising slogans, that Garry Williams. From ‘great games that sell and that sell over time’ to ‘pocket money prices’, Mastertronic’s self-styled spokesperson knows a catchy maxim when it pops into his brain. But the success of the company – which houses, amongst others, the continually prosperous …

'GameShow' strategy from newly-installed Moore pushes EA towards social networking