UK players of massively multiplayer online games spent 195m on them last year, a report has found. The Today’s Gamers MMO Focus Report also revealed that there are over four million MMO players in Britain, and that UK gamers spent more than any other European country on the genre last …
Read More »Party leaders back new awards
Standout creatives from the British game industry are to be recognised during a new awards event backed by the three key party leaders. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrats head Nick Clegg have each issued messages of support for the new awards event called the …
Read More »Gaming surpasses film in 2009
Despite the British cinema industry enjoying its best 12 months in almost 30 years, the UK public spent around half a billion pounds more on gaming than it did movies in the year ending September 2009, according to The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper pens the total amount spent at 1.73bn …
Read More »Blu-ray to be marketed hard this Xmas
The British Video Association has lifted the lid on a significant new TV advertising campaign designed to highlight the growing high definition Blu-ray format this Christmas. The push is being run on behalf of Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal pictures, Walt Disney and Warner. It’s part of a 1m …
Read More »Videogamer.com debuts online games show
Growing consumer games portal Videogamer.com, formerly known as Pro-G, has launched a brand new online games show – which the site says is aimed to appeal specifically to the British sense of humour. The first episode of The Videogamer.com Show features reviews of current chart-topper Grand Theft Auto IV, Iron …
Read More »Gaming more popular than sex
The Daily Mirror reports that Brits spend more time playing computer games in bed than they do having sex – in fact, sex is apparently only the 10th most popular activity between the sheets. Sleep is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the most popular bed-based pursuit, though it is followed by the likes …
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