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With the very notion of net neutrality currently under threat, it has emerged that the British Government is to ask ISPs to block all online pornography by default on domestic internet connections. Users wishing to access such material would have to ask providers to have it unblocked. For their ‘friend’, …
Read More »40% of all internet users play online games
Spil Games new report highlights the ongoing rise of the online gaming space
Read More »Player spends 21 hours a day on Warcraft
A World of Warcraft player spent an average of 21 hours per day playing the online game. The gamer was logged into social networking client Raptr while playing, which tracked their stats. Raptr found the user poured 149 hours into playing World of Warcraft during Cataclysm’s first week on sale, …
Read More »Online Black Ops woes – Treyarch speaks
PS3 owners still experiencing problems with the online component of Call of Duty: Black Ops have been told to hold tight as Treyarch looks to release another patch that it hopes will eradicate the issues. On Wednesday the developer released an update designed to ease the problems some are having …
Read More »360 most played console online
Xbox 360 owners spend more time playing online than PS3 and Wii players, research has revealed. 54 per cent of Xbox 360 gamers play video games online, compared to 46 per cent of PS3 players and 27 per cent of Wii owners. A survey from research firm Nielsen also shows …
Read More »Bigpoint tops 1bn daily transactions
Bigpoint has announced that its network of browser-based games now generates over one billion transactions every day. The publisher is best known for its online titles such as SeaFight and Dark Orbit, as well as an MMO based on Battlestar Galactica, which launched earlier this year. Bigpoint operates 60 different …
Read More »MCV adds social media as total readership soars
MCV has increased its print and web readership to highest-ever levels. A Google Analytics audit has shown that MCVuk.com attracted 374,038 unique visitors and 826,926 page views in November, both record figures for the site. Also, the weekly print edition is continuing to benefit from its digital distribution via Apple …
Read More »EA: Offline games are finished
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 …
Read More »Online to take 25% of Christmas spending
The biggest retailers on the web are expected to take a quarter of all Christmas spending this year. Figures from retail research firm Kantar Worldpnael show that 25% of Christmas presents in 2010 will be purchased from outlets such as Amazon, eBay and Play.com. Interestingly, it is older generations who …
Read More »Retail’s role in making MMOs a success
With more MMOs turning to the growing digital retail sector, with creators selling the game to consumers via a downloadable client, the question of how retail will fit into the future of the sector arises. We’re in a bit of strange transition at the moment,” says Codemasters’ David Solari. Publishers …
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