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News: 17% of social network gamers think themselves "addicted"

More than half of all social network users play games on their service of choice, according to a new survey from Lightspeed Research. The market research company claimed 58 per cent of users had played a social game, with 68 per cent of those doing so...

News: Katamari creator leaves "so-so" Namco Bandai

Noby Noby Boy and Katamari auteur Keita Takahashi has parted ways with Namco Bandai, following a string of critical comments about both the publisher and the games industry in general. The outspoken developer last month referred to the current state of...

News: Amazon challenges retail with 99c release day delivery

Amazon US has announced plans to drop its release day delivery charges for many games from $6 to 99 cents, in what appears to be a concerted move to battle high street retail. The online store already offers significant reductions in game RRP, and for...

News: Only 4% of UK games industry staff are female

The proportion of female videogame industry staff in the UK has dropped from 12 per cent in 2006 to 4 per cent last year, according to a new survey. The British Sociological Association, highlighting results found by University Of Liverpool PhD student...

News: OnLive: "Do we need boxes anymore?"

OnLive’s executive producer Tom Dubois has predicted the death of home consoles, believing that cloud gaming will ultimately replace them. “It’s been a long time since a major console shipped,” he told GamesIndustry.biz. “They’re...

Interview: OnLive’s Tom DuBois

Cloud gaming service OnLive launched in the US in June, following much speculation as to the feasibility of streaming games hosted on remote PCs as controllable video to any PC or Mac with a fast enough internet connection. While the service has yet to...

News: News Corp publishes North Korean games

News Corp subsidiary Fox Mobile published two games made in North Korea, it has been established. In 2007, programmers at the North Korean government’s General Federation of Science and Technology created Java-based mobile titles using the Big...

Interview: UKIE’s Michael Rawlinson

Last night the organisation formerly known as ELSPA widened its remit and rebranded to UKIE – United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment. Here, director general Michael Rawlinson explains more of the reasoning behind the change, talks about the importance...

News: We must be positive about UK industry – Rawlinson

The director general of the newly-rebranded UKIE has told GamesIndustry.biz that there needs to be more positivity about the talent and opportunity in the UK videogames business – and that he believes the country’s industry is still growing. Speaking...

News: Dead Rising: Case Zero passes 300,000 downloads

Dead Rising: Case Zero, the paid-for prequel to Dead Rising 2 – which Capcom released in place of a free demo – has sold well over 300,000 copies globally in its first week, according to public leaderboards. The title, which is available exclusively...
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