UK spent £1.9bn on games in 2008 - PC Advisor

More than 82 million video games were sold in the UK last year, says the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) . The industry body says the sales, which totaled £1.9bn, were 23 percent higher than the previous year. Of ...

UK Video Game Sales Soar 23%: Wii Sales More Than 360 + PS3 - Digital Lifestyles

UK sales of video game hardware and software in 2008 have lept to £4.034 billion, so say industry body ELSPA. Looks like fans of video games are refusing to listen to the doom-sayers and have been buying video games in ever larger numbers taking ...

Record Year for UK Games Business - Spong

The UK's video game publishers' representative body ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) is announcing a record-breaking year for its members. Using data from Gfk Chart-Track, ELSPA states that, "Total videogames software ...

Wii Got Game - Quad-Cities Times

New program for 3rd to 6th graders will give kids a chance to play favorite video games against peers. Library owns multiple gaming systems including Wii and Playstation 2, and numerous popular games such as Rock Band, Super Smash Bros., and Dance ...

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2009 Independent Games Festival Announces Finalists [01.07.09] The 2009 Independent Games Festival (IGF) has revealed the finalists for this year's competition, with nominees headed by orbital osmosis sim Osmos and abstract PSN action-er PixelJunk ...

No holiday cheer at Trans World - Times Union

The Albany-based company operates the FYE chain, which sells CDs, DVDs, video games and other entertainment products. Trans World officials had been downgrading expectations for the final quarter of 2008 in recent months, citing concerns about the ...

Computer game sales soaring - The Sun

SALES of computer games soared last year with more than FOUR BILLION pounds spent on virtual adventures and consoles. Annual figures from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association show that despite the credit crunch, 2008 was a ...