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A trade event has been added to The Gadget Show Live, bolstering the hugely popular consumer expo. The Gadget Show Live Professional will take place on Tuesday April 12th, the day before the five-day consumer exhibition takes place at the Birmingham NEC. Some 250 companies will take part in the …
Read More »Virgin inks EA Sports deal
Virgin Gaming is now the official provider of online tournaments for EA Sports. Virgin’s tournament platform will now integrate directly with certain EA Sports titles, it will offer community tools and web functionality for competitive play across Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. The first tournaments will begin early this year …
Read More »Iain Lee returns as MCV Awards host
Comedian and TV/radio presenter Iain Lee will host this year’s MCV Industry Excellence Awards. Lee returns to the stage at The Brewery on Thursday, April 7th after first hosting in 2007. As well as being a funny guy, Lee is an avid gamer. He currently hosts a two-hour show on …
Read More »Music labels rally around troubled HMV
The biggest names in the music industry has thrown its support behind trouble entertainment chain, HMV. In a letter to The Times, the seven biggest names in music – including Universal chairman David Joseph, Sony Music’s Ged Doherty and Warner Music UK chief executive Christian Tattersfield – praised the retailer …
Read More »Amazon agrees to buy LoveFilm
Amazon has agreed to acquire the remaining shares in LoveFilm, Europe’s biggest film and game rental firm. The online retail giant – which already held a 42 per cent share in LoveFilm – will finalise the acquisition before the end of March. LoveFilm has been innovating on behalf of movie …
Read More »DCMS takes sole charge of games
The Government’s Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) will now be solely responsible for the games industry. It means that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will no longer have anything to do with interactive entertainment sector. Games industry advocate Ed Vaizey, who was formerly a joint …
Read More »GameStop launches Kongregate Arcade on Android
GameStop’s browser portal Kongregate has launched what it claims is the largest ever collection of free games for Google’s Android mobile platform. The company said ‘Kongregate Arcade’ will feature over 300 free games based on Abobe Flash technology, resplendent with achievements, profiles and a robust navigation layer to create the …
Read More »Gears of War Triple Pack in-bound
Microsoft has announced the Gears of War Triple Pack. It features the first two games in the series and the All Fronts Pack for Gears of War 2. Other map packs and DLC will also be available to download for free. The bundle is due to hit shelves in the …
Read More »The Hut Group sales up 70%
Online retailer The Hut Group has seen its sales spike 70 per cent. Sales are up from 51m in 2009 to 87m in 2010. More than 80 per cent of these sales were generated by the Group’s own websites, including Zavvi.com and Thehut.com. The rest was generated through services to …
Read More »Codies seeks team for online F1 game
THE LUCRATIVE F1 licence is heading to internet browsers courtesy of a new development team. Described as a ‘service-based online game’, Codies is recruiting the team specifically for the project. The new team will be based at its Warwickshire HQ and available positions can be found on the Codemasters website. …
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