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Research firm DFC Intelligence estimates that the European market for digital game content is expected to grow to €3.3 billion in the next five years. The company will be presenting more details on this and other findings from a new report – Monetizing the European Market for Virtual Currency – …

Richard Banks talks social engagement tech on Kinect, WP7 and the web

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 …

Goldsmiths project to be funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council

According to the findings of The NPD Group’s new research report, titled Social Network Gaming, some 20 per cent of the US populace has spent time playing a social game. That translates into a quite incredible 56.8 million players across the country. Other findings in the report suggest that 35 …

Violent video games are almost completely harmless to young people with any negative effects likely to only impact those with pre-existing mental instability. That was one of the findings from a new research report, published in the Review of General Psychology from the American Psychological Association. "Violent video games are …

So-called brain training games have zero positive benefits on the intelligence of players, according to new research. A study by BBC Labs UK, tested 12,000 viewers of the TV show Bang Goes the Theory to practice a series of online tasks for ten minutes a day over a period of …

Microsoft’s Natal is still a good seven or eight months away from launch, but a research director for the platform holder has already confirmed that work has begun on the successor to the technology. When we invent something first like Natal, while we have a researcher working with the product …

EA’s digital Store has seen a huge uptake in downloads since it kicked off a promotion with Cancer Research earlier this month. The publisher is offering 10 per cent off its digital products to anyone who donates to Cancer Research in the UK. The offer is being promoted through Cancer …

Online gaming is expected to have an audience of 230 million gamers in China by 2012. That’s according to the latest report from Beijing-based research firm Analysis International, which also predicts the sector will generate revenues of YUAN 73.1 billion (10.7 million) in the next three years. The country currently …