Multiplay, the organisers of some of the UK's largest multiplayer gaming events, has announced the return of its flagship event - the M Festival.

M Festival Spring is set to take place at Stoneleigh Park from 10 - 13 April 2009, and is no...

No quicker is Christmas over than the Easter slog begins, and advertising agency supreme Saatchi & Saatchi has come up with a game for UK bus shelters that will promote Cadbury's Creme Eggs.

The interactive touchscreen game will see travellers...

A new report has challenged reports that Microsoft is preparing to make significant redundancies across its workforce, instead claiming that the Xbox manufacturer has other cost-cutting measures in mind.

Rather than the rumoured 15,000 redundancies,...

2K Game's global president Christoph Hartmann has both praised and criticised UK gaming retail, saying it's the best at creating a buzz around a product, but also the first to move it to the bargain bin when sales drop.

Hartmann believes...

Research from Kansas State University has found that computer games can have a negative impact on players' feelings about their bodies.

Apparently playing a game that features exceptionally muscular men, or very thin women (thanks Lara) for...

This may not be the first time we've seen a clever modder put Nintendo's N64 console into a handheld version, but it is has to be up there as one of the best.

Made and posted on the Ben Heck forums by modder SifuF, the Nintendo Sixtyfree...

Independent UK studio Free Radical Design has gone into administration, it has been confirmed.

The Haze developer, also thought to be developing the Star Wars Battlefront III game for LucasArts, had been plagued with rumours about its demise...

Electronic Arts has announced that it is to cut its worldwide workforce by 10%, which equates to around 1000 jobs.

The company revealed in October that there would be job cuts due to heavy losses, but only predicted there would be around...

Take-Two has released its 2007 fiscal year financial results, showing Q4 revenues up by over 10%, but losses that have more than doubled compared to last year's figures.

The publisher has put the losses, which tot up to around $15 million,...

EA has abandoned plans to build a new development studio in Vancouver.

A spokesman for EA has told Canada's Globe and Mail that slow seasonal sales in both North America and Europe, along with concerns about the state of the world's economy...

Despite all the newspapers filling up column inches telling us about the impact of the credit crunch on consumer spending this Christmas, it would seem that the majority of specialist game retailers are feeling quite the opposite.

In fact...

HM Revenues & Customs has issued a warning to gamers to be vigilant when buying games consoles and adaptors from abroad this Christmas, as it says many could be life-threatening counterfeits.

Hundreds of imported fake games consoles seized...

Zavvi has cancelled all video game, film and music orders from its website after its supplier Entertainment UK fell into administration last week.

Entertainment UK, or EUK, was the distribution arm of high street retailer Woolworths, and...

In a welcome bit of news amidst all the stories of closures and job losses, retail chain Gamestation is set to open its 250th store this Friday in Meadowhall, Sheffield.

The company is set to host an opening party on Thursday night for partners,...

A new study has been published that suggests children who play violent video games are likely to show increased aggression for some months afterwards.

The study, carried out by Iowa State University and published in the journal Pediatrics,...