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United Kingdom EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag British intelligence group advertising on Xbox Live 16 You know that old trope about kids who play videogames that are actually secret government evaluation programs designed to draft quick-witted children into secret adventures? British intelligence... Xbox 360 failure rate in UK? 60%, says CNET 110 It's the story that never dies, which is ironic because that's exactly what Xbox 360s keep doing. The old "Red Ring of Death" thing has all but disappeared from the news, but CNET has followed up... Kid pirates Xbox 360 games, gets banned, tells BBC 81 The BBC is hilarious when it tries to cover technology news, because it clearly has no idea what it's talking about, especially with videogames. Case in point: A kid got banned from Xbox Live bec... Hotel bans games for Christmas in the name of families 34 Videogames should be a part of every Christmas in a spiritual, traditional, and legally-enforced sense. Unfortunately, however, our letters to the United Nations demanding that anybody not playin... Introducing: Square Enix Europe 14 Here's something you should get used to if you live in the UK -- Square Enix Europe is the publisher of those Tomb Raider games. I know, weird, right?  That's how it's gonna' be, as Square E... UK devs: Piracy a 'problem,' but not 'threat to survival' 12 Piracy is, and always has been a threat to creative industry, and the gaming industry is no exception. However, a survey conducted by TIGA, a regional trade body, suggests that while the majority... British politicians argue over Modern Warfare 2 59 Yesterday we reported on British MP and reputed liar Keith Vaz, who pursued his long-running agenda against videogames by complaining about Modern Warfare 2's controversial airport scene and prom... Let the Modern Warfare 2 UK price war ... BEGIN! 41 MOOOORTAL KOMBAT! Evil publisher Activision may have whacked an RRP of £55 on Modern Warfare 2, but that hasn't stopped British supermarkets from engaging in brutal price combat as they att... Daily Mail jumps on Modern Warfare 2 'outrage' 53 How pathetically predictable. The first of the big mainstream "news" outlets has finally taken the bait, with British tabloid (read: glorified toilet paper) The Daily Mail claiming that Modern Wa... Valve says Brits don't talk enough online 97 I'm British by birth, and I must admit that screaming obscenities into a headset while trying to play videogames doesn't appeal to me. Apparently this is something not exclusive to your humble wr... UK news report on game addiction clinic upsets gamers 23 Gamers are getting angry over a UK news report on the game addiction clinic that we talked about yesterday. The West Country Tonight (haha) ran a story on the clinic, based in Somerset, with the... Britain gets its first game addiction clinic 21 Where there is a trendy new affliction, there is an expert with the answer. Thus it is that Britain is now host to its very first "game addiction" clinic in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Broadway ... Watch an Alien and a Predator play Rock Band together 11 What else needs to be said? A Xenomorph, a marine, a Predator and two of the Predator's friends team up to play The Automatic's "Monster" on Rock Band. This footage was captured at Lon... Daily Mail implicates videogames in schizophrenic attack 40 Oh Daily Mail, where would we be without you? Probably in a much better world. The Daily Fail's latest mess is a story revolving around James Callaghan, a schizophrenic teenager who attacked a 65... Uncharted 2 PS3 bundles coming to a few territories 8 Sony is offering a copy of Uncharted 2 with every purchase of a new 250GB PlayStation 3 slim over in Australia and New Zealand. The deal started this week and will last until January 31, 2010. A ... Second annual Eurogamer takes place later this month 37 Eurogamer is hosting their second annual Eurogamer Expo later this month in the United Kingdom. The show will feature numerous industry speakers, indie games and it will have a pretty kicking sho... Gamers to use real security cameras to spy for the cops 62 I'm not sure if this is manipulative, scary, brilliant, hilarious, or all three. A brand new PC game called "Internet Eyes" will allow players to view thousands of CCTV cameras around t... UK EyePet release not affected by US delay 14 In a rare case of Brits catching a break from the videogame industry, Sony has announced that the UK release of EyePet will not be affected by the annoying 2010 delay that North American gamers h... Activision defends Modern Warfare 2 price hike 66 Modern Warfare 2 was always going to sell like crazy in the UK, especially given the ridiculous success of World at War, but Activision decided to bump the price up to fifty-five quid anyway. Act... 73% of Brits are gamers 28 Big numbers have come from a 2009 National Gamers Survey that show just how popular videogames have become in Blighty. The study reveals that 73% of the British public regularly game, with the me... Wii trade price dropped in UK ... after it was raised 39 The Wii may finally be enjoying a price cut in the US and Japan, but everybody knows that Nintendo has a hard-on for screwing Europe over and so no price cuts are coming to the PAL territories. H... Cammie Dunaway to be in Shaun White 2 27 This is confirmed. 100 percent. Cammie Dunaway will be showing up in Shaun White 2 on the Wii as a playable character. I'm not lying... oh, I can't keep this up. This is most likely a joke from s... Modern Warfare 2 scalpers charging obscene prices 26 If you thought that Activision was bad when it came to game prices, you should take a look at the scalpers who are currently charging ridiculous prices for Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition. The... BBC continues to attack Sony for PS3 hardware failures 68 The big drama yesterday came in the form of serious accusations leveled at Sony and the PS3 by the BBC. The British Broadcasting Corporation aired an edition of its consumer complaints show, Watc... Watchdog attempts to humilitate Sony, fails hard 72 Earlier today we talked about how UK TV show Watchdog was running a scathing feature on the alleged high failure rate of the PlayStation 3. In a bid to shame Sony, the show parked a branded van o... TV show rips Sony apart for PS3 hardware failures 130 Sony has responded to serious allegations leveled by UK BBC show Watchdog. An episode of the consumer complaints program airs tonight, claiming that the PS3 has a huge hardware malfunction proble... Scribblenauts getting a full UK localization 32 British? Looking forward to Scribblenauts? Worried that you'll have to write "pants" instead of "trousers" or "The UK Office" instead of "The Office"? Fear... MP: Politicians should stop thinking about game violence 24 Shadow Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey is one of the few politicians in Britain who actually understands and appreciates the good that videogames do, and has been a supporter of the industry for a lo... PS3 Slim sells 40,000 units during UK launch week 27 The hits keep on rolling for Sony's PS3. Earlier this week, we learned that the PS3 Slim was selling like crazy in the UK, and it's now become known that around 40,000 of them have made their way... PS3 accounts for 10% of BBC iPlayer viewing 45 The good press for Sony just hasn't stopped this week. The BBC has praised the PlayStation 3 for its iPlayer functionality, describing the response to the new feature as "amazing" and r... Sony: PS3 Slim sales are 'ahead of expectations' 48 Yesterday was a day of win for Sony, with news that the PS3 Slim had sold like crazy in both Japan and the UK. Sony has commented on the good fortune, revealing it's "extremely pleased"... PS3 outselling Xbox 360 three to one in UK 62 Despite Microsoft claiming that the Xbox 360 is more successful than the PS3 in Europe, some new numbers have come in that show the PlayStation 3 absolutely shredding its bitter rival apart. If t... Xbox 360 sales climb 43% in UK following price cut 20 Microsoft recently dropped the price of the Xbox 360 Elite to £199 in the UK, and the move seems to have paid dividends, with a 43% sales increase seen this past weekend. "Essentially,... Microsoft tries to justify Xbox 360 Arcade price hike 66 A few days ago, we talked about how greedy Microsoft used the Modern Warfare 2 price hike to sneak in a price raise of its own, adding an extra £20 to the cost of an Xbox 360 Arcade and pil... Xbox 360 Elite gets a price cut in the UK, like right now 29 in the interest of not being complete jerks, Microsoft has seen fit to lower the price of an Xbox 360 Elite across the entirety of the United Kingdom. As of today, our friends in Great Britain ca... Sony's spending how much on a PS3 ad campaign? 33 Sony is looking to kill this Christmas. The PlayStation 3 Slim and the price cut are being backed up by an £82 million advertising campaign that kicks off in the UK tonight, and will run th... Today, it is legal to sell adult games to kids in the UK 47 It's always been considered illegal to sell adult-rated videogames and movies to minors in the UK, ever since the Video Recordings Act of 1984. However, it's been discovered today that the requir... Dead soldier's dad promises they'll play Call of Duty again 64 A touching game-related tribute has surfaced in the press recently. British Private Richard Hunt died last week after falling victim to an explosive while patrolling Afghanistan. At the grave sit... PSPgo will cost 224.99 in the UK 30 While the price of the PSPgo was announced for North America and Europe at E3, those gamers trapped in the British Isles had been left wondering with silent trepidation what the damage will be. N... Wolfenstein multiplayer devs fired on day of release 45 How's that for a kick in the nazi nuts? Wolfenstein has just launched today, and a vast number of the team responsible for its multiplayer mode have been sacked as a nice reward. UK developer End... Daily Mail says Britain's full of 'screenagers' 31 British tabloid and glorified comic book The Daily Mail loves to attack videogames, probably because Grand Theft Auto IV has more journalistic integrity than the average Mail writer. The latest i... Xbox 360 Arcade getting UK price hike AND less stuff 47 Not again! Hot off the heels of Activision's Modern Warfare 2 price hike, it's been revealed by a number of British retailers that Microsoft is planning to raise the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade ... Porn ads in game magazines show lack of morality? 35 UK gaming magazines are full of ads for porn, sex toys and dirty phone lines. Anybody who has bought an Imagine-published mag will tell you that they are, in fact, the best bits. However, one Bri... Game Face launches on Bravo in the UK, for casual gamers 20 Here is what I envision ex-MTV Europe boss Peter Einstein's pitch to Bravo UK for the new show Game Face to have gone like:Einstein: The thing casual gamers like least about games is the interest... Gamers set up futile Modern Warfare 2 price petition 53 Evil publisher Activision won no friends in the gaming community when it decided to raise the UK RRP of Modern Warfare 2 to $54.99, and villainous CEO Bobby Kotick didn't help when he joshed that... Due to demand, Konami reissues PlayStation 2 games in UK 31 It's always nice to hear that a company is listening to its customers. In a time where PlayStation 2 console and game sales are finally slowing down, Konami re-releases some of their more in-dema... Lara Croft possibly getting a road named after her 11 Odds are if you've had a road named after you you're somewhat important. Historical figures often get plenty of pieces of asphalt labeled with their name. Fictional characters? There's probably a... Section 8 coming to Europe, beta is too 9 Section 8 will be at the UK-based Multiplay M Festival and its sort of a big deal. For the first time in the history of mankind, non-media affiliated Europeans will be allowed to play the Xbox 36... Games need to cost more to survive says Chris Deering 77 First off I should probably tell you who Chris Deering is as you've most likely not heard of him since his name doesn't come up that often. He is the chairman of the Edinburgh Interactive Festiva... Resonance of Fate gets US/EU simultaneous 2010 release 17 Resonance of Fate, the RPG collaboration between tri-Ace and Sega, has been confirmed for a 2010 Western release and is due to arrive in North America and Europe at the same time. According to Se... Modern Warfare 2? BOYCOTT! 75 Hot off the heels of Left 4 Dead 2, it seems as if another boycott is looming on the horizon, and unlike the last one, this is a bit more justified. Following evil Activision's decision to raise ... Games Master's exclusive Arkham Asylum review is suspicious 44 Remember a few weeks back when it was alleged that Eidos had put certain conditions in place with a number of UK magazines, offering an early, exclusive review of Batman: Arkham Asylum if they we... Pachter: Modern Warfare 2's UK price is an evil test 57 Michael Pachter, industry analyst and professional guess-barbarian, has stated that evil publisher Activision's decision to price Modern Warfare 2 at £54.99 has nothing to do with a weak po... ASA picks on games again with new advertising guidelines 7 The Advertising Standards Authority has cropped up many times over the past few years in connection to videogames, mostly because the group in charge of London's many adverts seems to buckle unde... Scribblenauts gets UK release date 13 Scribblenauts is my jam. I've been looking forward to this ever since I'd simply heard that 5th CELL was working on a new game. That's just how much I love 5th CELL. UK gamers of a similar dispos... HMV selling Modern Warfare 2 Prestige in UK for 120 quid 29 Yesterday, we found out that evil publisher Activision is planning to sell Modern Warfare 2 for the disgusting price of £54.99. One of the first questions had by stricken British gamers was... Modern Warfare 2 enjoys huge UK price hike, costs 54.99 102 It's been a while since I lived in England now, but I still remember how annoying it was to spend £49.99 on a brand new videogame. It looked like things would calm down as I was leaving, wi... Flower dev: Games need real 'mature content' 35 Flower and Fl0w developer Jenova Chen has been discussing mature content at the Develop conference in Britain, claiming that videogames need much more of it. Of course, he's not referring to what... Perry: Used games pushing industry to digital distribution 33 Dave Perry is obsessed with the issue of used games. His rants on the subject have been numerous, and now he's implicated GameStop and its ilk in the game industry's recent drive to pur... 'Casual' game developer hates the word 'casual' 36 The term "casual" has been thrown around entirely too much ever since the meaningless buzzword was invented and subsequently used as a byword for "crap." Gladly, I'm not the o... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 24 hour contest time GO: For the Glory (PC) Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! review EyePet review New Super Mario Bros. 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