According to a report from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts (UK endowment for the maximization of UK's creative and innovative potential">NESTA), the UK games will be dropping down from third position to fifth in 2009's global rankings. Reason why is at the full article.

Given the great strides taken by the digital downloading industry, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon. Bo Andersen, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association, has a thing or two to say about that, however.

In a recent interview, DC Universe Online (PS3, PC) writer Geoff Johns revealed that SOE's MMORPG will be ready by late 2009 or early 2010. He also talked about his method as he worked on the game. Check it out in the full article.

Keith Bakker is the founder and head of the first and only clinic that treats video game addiction in Europe so he should know what he's talking about when he says most "videogame-addicted" gamers aren't actually addicts.

By the end of last week, November 22, Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS) found itself still at the pinnacle of UK's Top 40 Entertainment Sorfware sales on Chart-Track. Other notables for that week are Need for Speed: Undercover which debuted at a respectable fourth place and Wrath of the Lich King eating a 32-place crit and dropping to 34th.

Could it be that we're finally close to a decision on which ratings system should govern the UK game industry? The Byron Review consultation period ended yesterday if you've been following the news. So what's the early word from the participants? Find out in the full article.

As many of you already know, Cryptic Studios is the developer working on Champions Online and Star Trek Online. Some of you probably already know that these games are being designed to appear both on the PC and the Xbox 360.

Now here's something you probably don't know about yet: Star Trek Online and/or Champions Online might be getting a PS3 port.

Console ports for MMOs seems to be quite the trend lately. So what about Blizzard's World of Warcraft? Aren't they worried that if someone beats them to the punch, they'll loose out. Not really, according to Mike Morhaime. Guess this means a World of Warcraft console port is still a looooooong ways off.

Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime was interviewed recently about the MMO leviathan, World of Warcraft, and what we can expect in the near future. The most important keynote: No changes to the subscription rates.

Only a few days after the world's first level 80 (Nymh the warlock) in World of Warcraft, we have the world's first LVL 80 Death Knight. Who took the title? Is he/she from the US or the EU? Check it out in the full article.