Unless you’ve been living under a rock or this is the only source you look to for videogames industry news, you’ll probably have heard that Little Big Planet is delayed, and all copies recalled, due to there being phrases from the Koran in the soundtrack.
Copies are still available in some places, with pre-cut versions fetching [...]

Monumental Games are in fine form at the moment, partnering not just with the tech strategy board and University College London, but now Reebok too. Partnering with so many people to do something so specific, yet popular, will be a primary way to compete in an MMO market dominated by Activision/Blizzard.
In game ads are of [...]

Paul Mayze (COO of Monumental Games) and Mario Rizzo (Realtime Worlds‘ Business Development Manager) will be speaking at this year’s GameHorizon Conference at Centre For Life in Newcastle. The subject:
If online is the future of gaming, what does it take to be successful in this space? and how can you make the transition to online?
The [...]

It’s just over a month since speculation surfaced on cuts at NCsoft Brighton, with the situation ultimately culminating in the closure of their dev studio with almost 70 redundancies as a result. Wired Sussex pointed out that the industry in the region is still quite strong, with many companies hiring in the region.
Some of the [...]

From the Introversion forums comes disturbing news that online game review sites may be cutting back on reviews. Money quote:
We’ve heard disturbing rumours from more than one source that major games websites are now cutting back on the number of games they review – and it’s games like Multiwinia that are getting dropped because there [...]

Midlands games developers seem to be well ahead of the rest of the country in utilising funding offered by the Technology Strategy Board. As well as Monumental being funded recently, Emote just announced £600K from them as part of a £1.3M project to improve AI in networked environments.
They are also apparently partnering with Imperial College [...]