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I’d filled a lab with a cornucopia of games technology, from deafening arcade machines to tiny pocketable gadgets, and then over a period of some time, watched carefully as the under 20s, and often the under 11s, played them for all they were worth. At the time horror stories were …

Nintendo’s year-on-year first-half profit and sales figures have doubled after the continued success of Wii and DS. The company has now raised its profit outlook to a record for the second time this year, reports Bloomberg . Net income jumped to 132.4 billion yen (586 million) in the six months …

SCEE is inviting members of the industry to take up its Buzz! challenge at www.letsplaybuzz.com . The publisher is celebrating the release of Buzz! Hollywood, which entered the UK charts this week. Players have to answer a series of Buzz!-style posers – including a fair few on Tinseltown itself. They …

Okay, maybe not teeth. That’s an overly aggressive portrayal. And two less aggressive men than ELSPA director general Paul Jackson and MD Michael Rawlinson I have yet to meet (though chairman Andy Payne has been known to show his gnashers on occasion and board member Geoff Heath apparently carried a …

Both views are valid, and supported by scientific studies but this dichotomy is too simplistic. Whether a video game will increase violent behaviour in the child playing it depends on so many other factors. I would argue that there are some children who could play the most violent games without …

Just like every year at the MCV Industry Excellence Awards, various people involved in the organisation of the GMA s were pinned against walls and asked to explain why X, Y or Z didn’t win. It’s pretty simple: because people voted for who they thought was best. This outcry at …

A new $279 Arcade pack will include a wireless controller and several casual titles including Pac-Man, Uno and Luxor 2, reports next-gen.biz . Arcade becomes [for us] the ability to bring in a new set of audiences,” said Bach. They’re probably a little bit more casually focused, they’re looking for …

A new $279 Arcade pack will include a wireless controller and several casual titles including Pac-Man, Uno and Luxor 2, reports next-gen.biz . Arcade becomes [for us] the ability to bring in a new set of audiences,” said Bach. They’re probably a little bit more casually focused, they’re looking for …

Granted, there are things wrong with the market for mobile games, but there are things very much right with it as well. And amidst the confusion of new handsets, new payment methods and emerging business models, it’s easy to lose sight of how much better things are getting for the …

Granted, there are things wrong with the market for mobile games, but there are things very much right with it as well. And amidst the confusion of new handsets, new payment methods and emerging business models, it’s easy to lose sight of how much better things are getting for the …