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BAFTA, DCM combine games, TV and film in new campaign

BAFTA and DCM (Digital Cinema Media) have teamed up with award-winning actress Susan Wokoma to create a national cinema advertising campaign that promotes and celebrates the art of storytelling in video games. It’s the third campaign delivered by the partnership and is releasing in cinemas ahead of the 21st BAFTA Games Awards on April 8th. […]

April 2, 2025

Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue coming to London this April

Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue, the ultimate real-life immersive adventure, is coming to London this April. Attendees will be able to explore seven interactive Minecraft rooms, battling mobs and collecting resources in a daring quest to save the villagers – enabling them to experience the Minecraft phenomenon in a whole new way. After debuting in Dallas, […]

February 13, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Report: Google, Facebook most popular 2024 internet services

Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has published its fifth annual Year in Review, exploring global Internet insights and security trends during 2024, accompanied by a deeper dive on the most popular Internet services. Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review underscores how every year, as more people and devices connect to the Internet, global traffic surges (up […]

December 9, 2024

Research: Gaming leads family prime time entertainment

Research from Livewire, the gaming marketing specialist, has revealed a profound shift in family entertainment. Saturday night has long been considered prime time for families to come together and enjoy each other’s company. Twenty years ago, this meant gathering around the big screen to watch TV shows or movies. But in 2024, gaming has taken […]

November 26, 2024

Come Dine With Me enters the metaverse

ITV Studios label MultiStory Media and Metaverse creative agency Metavision, have partnered up to launch Channel 4’s globally popular Come Dine With Me into the metaverse, with players now able to go head to head to become the ultimate dinner party host in a newly released Minecraft world. Come Mine With Me, which has been […]

April 26, 2023

FilmRise premiere BriannaPlayz on The Roku Channel

FilmRise, the New York-based film and television studio and streaming network, announced at VidCon U.S. 2022, that it is premiering an original streaming series, BriannaPlayz, exclusively on The Roku Channel in the US and UK. The launch marks the first time that the series will be available off of a digital platform, and on a […]

June 27, 2022

Research: Minecraft most malware-infected game

According to data presented by the Atlas VPN team, 303,827 individuals’ devices were affected by gaming-related malware and unwanted software between July 1st 2020, and June 30th 2021. Mobile games are also a major threat for gamers; As many as 50,644 users attempted to download 10,488 unique files disguised as the ten most-played mobile games, […]

October 7, 2021

Study: Gaming influencers earning 122x average salary

Video game streaming is an industry that’s gone from strength to strength. Starting with the early days of YouTubers sharing clips of play with their own commentary and reactions, the arrival of Twitch in 2011 caused a boom in interest that continues to skyrocket. For many, it might be a hobby, but at the top […]

July 29, 2021

Study: Brazilians are biggest eSports cheats

Brazilian eSports competitors are most likely to cheat by using cheat codes, bots and hacks to gain an unfair advantage over opponents while playing online. The Cheating Countries study used search volume data to analyse the incidence of cheat codes, bots and hacks used in popular video game titles, and compares this to the number […]

August 27, 2020