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Film production legend Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate has been signed up to give the keynote speech at this year’s Handheld Learning Conference . Lord Puttnam, who spent 30 years as an independent film producers, will call for the education sector to work closer with entertainment markets He will be …

Disney Interactive Studios CEO Graham Hopper has said that consumers may be put off buying rhythm action games by the prospect of using an additional peripheral. Disney’s Ultimate Band, due out next year, doesn’t use a Guitar Hero-style accessory. For the full story, visit MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz

Retailers beware: a massive batch of stolen PS3 software is AWOL in the UK. According to The Sun, thieves made away with seven pallets of PS3 titles, including 16,000 copies of Ubisoft’s Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway – worth 600,000 in total. The haul was originally found by police in …

Nintendo will release a new model of its DS handheld later this year that can take pictures and play music. That’s according to a report in the Japanese business daily Nikkei (via Reuters), which says the system will also be equipped with advanced wireless communications functions. The price for the …

Lawyer Jack Thompson, a long time enemy of the video games industry, has been banned from practising law by the Florida Surpreme Court. According to a news release rom Thompson himself posted on Kotaku, the ‘disbarment is in retaliation, among other things, for Thompson’s Tyndale House book Out of Harm’s …

Following a spate of aggressive promotions from the likes of Morrisons, Woolworths and Asda, leading industry figures have urged retail to hold fire on further cuts to new release pricing. With fears over the economy at an all time high, ultra-crowded release schedules and retailers fighting for supremacy, many are …

It might originally have been based upon the surprise birth of a little fella in a barn over 2000 years ago, but things have changed. In the games industry and at retail, Christmas has become an all or nothing scrapfest for the consumer pound. And of the three platform holders, …

(a) An atrocious novelty record reaching inexplicable heights in the charts; (b) Vaguely sinister old men in costume inviting kids they don’t know to sit on their knees; (c) Continual reminders that ‘there are only X amount of shopping days until Christmas’, creating widespread panic for parents in a desperate …

GFK ChartTrack has revealed to MCV that it is ready to produce a Wii Budget Chart as soon as the industry wants it. GFK ChartTrack’s Chris Poole confirmed: As long as everyone is in agreement then it’s something that we’ll produce and publish without a problem. If people want it …

Warner Bros. has told MCV that it is readying an industry-leading approach to movie-based games with the digital download-only release of Watchmen next year. Watchmen, the film based on the cult comic books, is due out in March next year, with the game set to take place before the events …