Games industry trade body ELSPA has announced it is to change its name to the UK Interactive Entertainment Association, a re-brand that it says will help it to better reflect the industry it is representing. The name was agreed by ELSPA members at an Extraordinary General Meeting held today Visit link: News: ELSPA to become UK Interactive Entertainment Association Bookmark It Hide... 

The first bit of Heavy Rain downloadable content, titled “The Taxidermist,” will come out on April 1 according to the PlayStation Blog. The additional episode, which was released for free to those who pre-ordered the game, will cost $4.99. The episode takes place before most of the events of the game, and features Madison investigating a suspicious house while on the trail of the Origami... 

PSLS writes: GameTrailersTV with Geoff Keighley has been getting some truly excellent exclusive content as of late, with the God of War III Vengeance Trailer, and the SOCOM 4 Reveal Trailer. Tonight’s episode will surely follow that trend… Read the original: Jack Tretton Talks Sony’s 2010 E3 Plans, PlayStation Move Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

EALA lead designer Sam Bass discusses the ideas that his team has injected into Command & Conquer 4, the last game in the series, to help make the RTS genre more approachable to newcomers and more satisfying to all. View post: The End of RTS? A Command & Conquer 4 Interview Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

A dispute over a stolen console and games led to a shooting in an Anchorage, Alaska mall last month. Police have obtained a warrant for 28-year old Terence Clyde Gray (pictured), who is alleged to have shot 29-year old Edwing Matos at the Dimond Center on February 27. Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

Go Fanboy: One thing that’s become quite clear over the last 72 hours is that while Sony fanboys are great gamers and valuable cogs in the gaming industry, they don’t seem to have a general grasp of video game history. Fanboys are littering forums all over the place calling Microsoft copycats for the idea of a “slim”. Now for some reason, Sony fanboys seem to think that Sony... 

Koku writes: “As with any new system that comes out for the consumer, there will be a lot of companies producing software for them. Some will be good, and an inordinate amount will be bad. Read the original post: Shovel-ware and Nintendo: It’s Your Problem Too Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

A distribution agreement between PC developer and publisher Paradox Interactive (Victoria II, Hearts of Iron) and publisher SouthPeak (My Baby) has gone sour, and Paradox has filed for an injunction. According to legal filings obtained by Gamasutra, Paradox claims SouthPeak owes it some $585,382 it’s collected from the sale of its games — the money remains unpaid due to SouthPeak’s... 

So much for remaining neutral—a pair of Swiss resolutions dealing with violent videogames have been passed by the country’s National Council. As detailed last month , the first resolution, proposed by Christian Democratic Party member and National Councillor Norbert Hochreutener, would make it illegal to sell PEGI 16 or 18-rated games to minors, while a second resolution, backed by Social... 

VG247: Ubisoft just slipped the PC version of Splinter Cell: Conviction from April 16 to April 30. Originally posted here: Splinter Cell: Conviction PC slips two weeks Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

In a bid to combat its estimated 2.0 million Internet and videogame addicts, South Korea will offer free software to the populace that would limit time spent online. Under what’s termed a “consensual shut-down program,” users would be able to set the days and times that they would be able to access the Internet, reports the Korean Times . A second method of limiting screen time would... 

TheSixthAxis writes: Dark Energy Digital have just let us know that they’ve made their brand new teaser page for Hydrophobia live – the game is, we’re promised an “action-adventure blockbuster”, so hopes are high. See the article here: New "Jaw Dropping" Game Teased Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

VG247: Ubisoft’s just sent VG247 a statement on the report from this morning that Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter V were withdrawn from Steam by Valve over its DRM issues. Read the original: Ubisoft games withdrawl from Steam "nothing to do" with DRM Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

“It’s an interesting time to be an RTS developer,” says Command & Conquer 4 lead designer Sam Bass. The upcoming release of StarCraft II will be a boon to the genre overall, he says, expecting it to “help the market” — support he says RTS gaming needs right now. “I think we’re a little bit in danger of becoming like the flight sim market, where... 

Preliminary data is in and God of War III looks to outperform its predecessor by 20-30% in the Americas More here: God Of War 3 sells 450,000 units on day 1 in the americas. Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

God of War 3 boss Hermes is too hard? Read the original here: God of War 3: Embarrassing Glitch Lets You Skip Hermes Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →