Tweet At the same time that EA announces it will be fronting up to $400 million USD to buy the phenomonally successful social network  game developer, Playfish, they have also announced 1500 job cuts. Due to the publishing giant seening its eleventh quarterly loss in a row they have decided to cut 1500...

Tweet Bayonetta has been blowing reviewers out of the water in Japan. SEGA are very proudly blowing their trumpets hard at the news that Famitsu has given Bayonetta 40/40 for the 360 and 38/40 for the PS3. Of course this bodes well for those of us who are waiting with bated breath for the European and...

Tweet EA have announced an exclusive limited edition pack for Battlefield Bad Company 2, to be available as an exclusive pre-order to certain retailers. GAME in the UK have snapped up the rights to sell the nifty new SKU which includes a handful of rather useful add-ons for Bad Company fans. The pack will...

Tweet It’s always a bit of a hoot when politicians weigh in with opinions on video games but this time around one is offering to champion the industry, in his own special way of course. Ed Vaizey, the Shadow Minister for Culture, has said that the current UK government has strangled the British games...

Tweet According to those in the know, we should start to see downloads outselling boxed games sometime around 2012/13. Industry analyst Nick Parker emailed all the big players in the games industry to ask them when they saw the games industry having its “iTunes moment” and a whopping 11 of the 18...

Tweet That’s right. EA have decided that, in the name of marketing, they will hold a 24 hour marathon session to promote the launch of Dragon Age: Origins. This is to be an international team based event hosted in London entitled Warden’s Quest and the grand prize of $12,500 (USD) per team...

Tweet That’s right. I said it. Dundee has a new, rather awesome, digital arts festival. With the Scottish city being the home of Crackdown and APB developer Realtime Worlds, the masters of digital TV games Denki and new studio Ruffian (currently developing Crackdown 2) as well as being spiritual home...

Tweet This is going to be an interesting week for me, and for the entire games industry for that matter. Aside from spending the best part os 18 out of 36 hours on buses travelling between Glasgow, London and Edinburgh, I will be visiting the London Games Conference. This year’s outing will see the...

Tweet Publisher/Developer: Sony/Polyphony Digital Genre: Racing Sim Price: £29.99/£21.99 (PSN) Verdict: The best disappointment of 2009 without a doubt. Pros: The best driving mechanics and graphics to be found on the PSP. Cons: No career mode. No career mode. No bloody career mode. Let’s be brutally...

Tweet Later this month various games industry luminaries will be gathering in London to discuss the future of digital downloads.  Traditional retailers will be watching very closely to see what will be said here because it may just give us an idea of how the industry will chance the way it delivers games to...