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The current physical issue of GAMER magazine will be the last. Bournemouth’s Uncooked Media has announced its intention to shift the brand online, focusing on its interactive GAMER app that launched in February. By focusing on GAMER Interactive we can embrace new opportunities, such as creating one-off specials on a …

ShopTo.net has released the results of a survey claiming the average UK gamer spent 334 last year on their hobby. The survey was conducted via e-mail between the 15th and 17th of June 2012, recieved just over 9,000 responses, with a sampling error of plus or minus seven percent. ShopTo.net …

A senior advisor to the British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the Tory leader spends a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja on his iPad”. The Telegraph reports that the PM has also ordered a special app on his iPad that will give him a management …

Yet another retailer has made a new move for video games market share – Blockbuster. Called Blockbuster VIP Gamer, the retailer boldly claims its new loyalty program will provide gamers with the most rewarding experience in the gaming market”. Unlike other schemes this new offer doesn’t just reward consumers for …

It has emerged that UK newspaper The Daily Mail completely fabricated” quotes used in a story linking gaming to a new generation of zombie children”. Today’s story leads with the headline Stoned with tiredness: Generation of children are becoming zombies because of late-night gaming sessions, claims charity”. It then goes …

MCV looks at what the arrival of the toughest game, Namco Bandai’s Dark Souls, ever says about the market… Expanding the games industry has had the inevitable effect of ‘dumbing down’ the more challenging elements of interactive entertainment. New interfaces and new audiences mean that games have to be accessible, …

It’s one of the better known supposed ‘facts’ about Bobby Kotick – he doesn’t like games. But the Activision boss has come out and denied the claims, saying that being a single dad is the only barrier between him and a gaming habit. I don’t even know how that happened!” …

UKIE and the wider games industry have put a lot of effort into getting a bit of gaming into Government – and the efforts have seemingly been successful with confirmation that the love for video gaming has spread to the very top of UK politics. When not tied up with …

Despite previous assertions from Microsoft that it’s upcoming Xbox 360 peripheral Natal is very much for the hardcore gamer as well as the casual market, Michael Pachter has claimed that simply isn’t the case. Microsoft isn’t concerned about the gaming community with Natal, they’re concerned about the gaming community’s mothers …

Having enjoyed a record-breaking start to its life in the UK, it is now being claimed that retailer Best Buy is to launch an official in-store games magazine across its chain of North American stores. The claims come from the Facebook account of Andy Eddy, as spotted by The Game …