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Amazon’s own-branded monochrome e-reader Kindle is proving a surprisingly popular games machine. Kotaku spotted that according to the retailers Kindle charts, which show the best selling titles of the last 90 days, eight of the top 12 best sellers for the device were games. Games also managed to oust books …

The world’s biggest digital games retailer is under attack. MCV understands that key ‘traditional’ retailers will drop titles that integrate the popular Steam service as fears mount that the it has a ‘monopoly’ on the download market. Insiders say Steam, run by US studio Valve, serves a massive 80 per …

One of the most senior execs at Electronic Arts believes non-online-enabled games are a finished” commodity. EA Games label president Frank Gibeau said that online components in all the division’s games are now borderline compulsory – a move that illustrates the startling evolutionary pace of the modern games industry. I …

The designer whose claims in tonight’s Panorama that some games developers are deliberately employing psychologically addictive techniques to keep users playing their games has elaborated on his argument. Adrian Hon, the founder and CCO of Six to Start and former director of play at Moshi Monsters creators Mind Candy, points …

In 2001 I spent six months in Sri Lanka. When you’re living and working in the jungle there’s not much to do of a night, and as a result I found myself getting engrossed in, amongst other things, the Harry Potter books. There were many blurry-eyed mornings caused by a …

People have addictive personalities. Said people can conceivably become addicted to games. As games become more popular that risk increases. That’s the central premise of Panorama’s ‘Addicted to Games’, which airs on BBC one tonight at 20:30. Where the programme slides into murky territory, however, is the insinuation that developers …

Phil Harrison has predicted that console quality gaming in web browsers will emerge as the next-gen gaming platform. Speaking at his keynote session at the Italian Videogame Developers Conference in Rome, the London Venture Partners co-founder asked the crowd if they believed they would ever see a game of the …

Early information about next week’s Panorama investigation into addictive gaming paints a dark picture of what might be aired on Monday night. The BBC’s official description of the show reads as follows: As pester power kicks in and the computer games’ industry launches its latest products on to the Christmas …

Despite the likes of EA, Capcom and Ubisoft continue to enjoy growing success in sectors such as the App Store and Facebook, publishing giant Activision has said it has no intentions of entering either space. We don’t view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games,” chief …

While massively multiplayer games are predominantly a PC-based affair, various companies have tried to establish a market on consoles – with mixed results. The 2003 title EverQuest Online Adventures struggled to recreate its predecessor’s success on PS2, but Sega has seen relatively strong performances from its Phantasy Star Online titles, …