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Hospital With Convicted Killers Gets 22 Wii Consoles
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Lara Croft, star of the Tomb Raider franchise, might be getting her own street, Lara Croft Way, in the UK city of Derby. More »Resident Evil Clergy Critics: "Wait, What?"
The U.K. clergy members quoted as criticizing Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for glamorizing violence and promoting the occult say their remarks have been misrepresented by the source originally reporting them. More »Religious Criticism of Resident Evil Dignified With Response
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Microsoft's U.K. boss dismissed a report last week that Natal will be ready to go in November 2010, saying claims of pricing and available shipments were based on inaccurate rumors. More »BBC iPlayer Gets Its Own Wii Channel
The UK's iPlayer TV and Radio on demand server for the Wii gets an upgrade next week, graduating from Wii Internet Channel feature to full-on BBC iPlayer Wii Channel. More »Scottish Hotel Bans Video Games
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British people, speak up! According to Valve's Chet Faliszek, those gamers in the U.K. are quiet. More »Katamari Creator's Playground Moving Forward
Several years back, Keita Takahashi, the game designer behind Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, mentioned he wanted to design playgrounds. He's been commissioned to do so, and the ball is now starting to get rolling, so to speak. More »Sky Launches On Xbox 360
It's official. In the UK, Sky has launched on Xbox LIVE and Gold members with at least 2Mb broadband and either a Sky TV or Sky Player can watch Sky One, MTV and Sky Arts, reports CVG. More »EA FLIPS Make Reading Somewhat Fun
Reading is pretty awesome kids, but what about those stodgy old books, with their paper and the turning? Forget those. EA makes reading fun by putting books on your DS with FLIPS. More »Japanese Internet Reacts To BBC's Dying Nation Claims
The Japanese population is shrinking. That doesn't have much to do with video games, now does it? Or does it? More »Welcome To Aion Server Queues, Europe!
If you thought we had it bad in North America, many European Aion players weren't even able to get into a queue during peak hours during the game's launch weekend. Consider yourselves lucky! More »BBC Examines Yellow Light of Death in UK
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UK Scribblenauts buyers won't have to fuss with our quaint colonial terms, with developer 5th Cell going out of their way to make sure that no one confuses football with football. More »UK Gets Xbox 360 Price Cut And Price Hike
It's not only the US that is seeing an Xbox 360 price drop, but the UK, too. Starting tomorrow, the Xbox 360 Elite 120GB will be priced at £199.99 (US$324). More »Does Anyone Here Know Welsh?
Welsh-speaking people, game developers Arberth Studios needs your help. Instead of shelling out £16,500 (US$27,000) to have its game professionally translated, the studio is asking for the next best thing: Free help. More »There Are Adult Ads In UK Game Mags
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