Lack of Funds the Main reason Behind Piracy says Survey

The UK government’s proposed plans to disconnect the internet connections of users who illicitly download movies, music, and games are “misconceived”, and jeopardise internet users’ rights, according to...

Blogosphere is abuzz with rumours that Apple is on the verge of joining hands with some of the prominent game developers to offer their premium content through its App Store.  The fresh set of rumours claimed that Apple is...

Media Control GfK International has published a report that shows how sales of video games have outperformed DVD and Blu-ray movie sales for the first time ever in 2008, underlying a definite shift in terms of how people spend...

Figures published by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) on the 6th of January showed that last year, its members have sold more DVDs, games and music than ever before. Time for Champagne? Not yet. There's a massive...

Sales of computer and console games have been growing significantly in 2008 according to the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) despite the current economic climate and the loss of the industry's biggest player,...

It has been one of the most acclaimed games of 2008 and now Spore has grabbed the unenviable top spot as the most illegally downloaded game of the year, far ahead of its nearest rival. The refreshing life simulation game has...

Gaming has become the main entertainment industry in the UK in terms of revenues for the first time according to a study carried out by Verdict Research. The analyst firm posits that spending on games will defy the current...

I was intrigued to read in the Scottish Daily Record today about the curious case of a pensioner couple - Ken Mackinnon and his wife Gillian - who were sent a solicitor's letter demanding 525 quid for allegedly file-sharing an...

Yesterday's news of the successful prosecution of a 30-year old mother of two for illegally sharing file seems to have embolden the rest of the industry to pursuit UK-based casual pirates. The Telegraph, the Times and the...

Beyond the figures, there's a fact. None of the big software companies (Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle etc) have directly benefited from the emergence of Apple's increasingly popular App store.The Cupertino company gives developers the...

Tens of thousands of UK households could soon receive letters from their ISPs asking them to stop sharing music illegally in an anti-piracy deal brought forward by the government under the pressure of the music industry. Six of...

In what some are already considering as a massive publicity stunt, Topware interactive, a small US game developer which produces the game Dream Pinball 3D, is taking 100 British Citizens to court for putting its leading game on...

David Perry knows a thing or two about Computer gaming; so when he said that giving games away - and building revenue models on addons - could be the only solution to the problem of piracy, the gaming industry listens. The...

A major flaw in Nokia’s N-Gage mobile gaming platform was uncovered earlier this week. This flaw required any N-Gage user who updated his/her phone to re-purchase all the games on his/her phone. Terrible news for the fans...

The raid was carried out at a weekend computer fair in Bradford and involved the seizure of counterfeit software and machinery to 'chip' games consoles. Chipping a console makes it possible to play pirated games on it by...