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Last week’s episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross saw the leading BBC entertainer spare a few moments to talk gaming with Hollywood superstar Vin Diesel. Around halfway through the interview, Ross began probing Diesel about his childhood obsession with Dungeons & Dragons, and eventually MMO gaming. When Ross admitted …

According to the BBC , Woolworths and EUK have gone into administration, with an official announcement expected tomorrow morning. The Woolworths board met up this evening to make the decision, with Deloitte to be appointed administrators to both EUK and the High Street chain. Business secretary Peter Mandelson has been …

The BBC has launched a brand new casual games portal on its website that is designed to hitch a ride on the casual games bandwagon and drive popularity of many of its key franchises. To read more, head over to MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz.

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Underage children are able to buy violent video games through auction websites, says the UK Trading Standards Institute. Reported in the national press and on the BBC this morning, 44 children as young as 12 were recruited by Welsh Trading Standards in order to buy 18 rated games online via …

A story about UK games development posted this morning on the BBC seems to claim that the now Ubisoft-owned developer Reflections is working on a brand new instalment to its Driver franchise. The BBC video interview begins with a shot of a Reflections dev playing a driving game, over which …

BBC current affairs TV show Newsnight has filmed two boys playing a ’15’-rated game in front of one of its reporters – despite the pair clearly being younger than the title’s BBFC age classification. Last Wednesday evening’s episode of the show featured an examination of the legacy of media critic …

Since the announcement of Top Trumps: Dr. Who, the gaming world has been hankering after a full next-gen release featuring everybody’s favourite time-travelling Scot. Yet alas it’s not to be, as BBC puts pay to rumours that someone, somewhere has the full Doctor Who licence. That leaves Eidos’ Top Trumps …

Nintendo might have enjoyed fanfare this week as it unveiled the Wii’s new ability to handle BBC iPlayer , but it looks as though the application will soon be made available on PlayStation 3 as well. The head of BBC digital media technology, Anthony Rose, has confirmed on his official …

Technology editor at the BBC Darren Waters has stated that following Nintendo’s deal with the BBC to bring iPlayer content to the console, the Wii is the only system to offer the kind of multimedia functionality Sony and Microsoft have been talking up for years. How ironic that it is …