This Friday the 13th ELSPA (the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association) investigators decided to bring nightmares to life for two Scottish people who were into pirating games and gaming consoles. Their action was a success and hopefully the world will now have two pirates less to worry about.
The organization reported seizing of “a large [...]

Because of the recession, piracy might get to new heights this year and the latest ELSPA raid seems to prove that it’s a correct statement: the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association raided a small factory in the UK last week, resulting in the largest ever seizure of illegal game copying devices in the UK.
The [...]

The news we’ve brought you this week prove that our beloved video games are now more popular than ever, even though in Japan things don’t look great at the moment. We have Microsoft selling consoles better than ever, we have Nintendo breaking records all over again, things are looking great overall. And if you are [...]

Even though in 2008 in Japan things did not look too good game sales-wise, in Europe and especially in the UK things were a lot different. According to ELSPA reports quoted by Eurogamer, the videogame sales in the United Kingdom reached all time highs in 2008, with almost 83 million games sold (which mean that [...]

Although sales were not as high as anticipated for Media Molecule’s “console seller” LittleBigPlanet, the game still sold enough copies to be granted Gold status by the ELSPA in the UK. This means that the game sold more than 200k copies in the United Kingdom only.

However, according to Edge Online, Sony’s game might go for [...]

A factory producing counterfeit video game, music and film discs with an estimated street value of £1million ($1,5 million) was shut down by the ELSPA in collaboration with West Midlands Police officers and members of Sandwell Council’s Trading Standards Department. And even though we recently found out that games piracy reached huge proportions I must [...]

Piracy can generate huge amounts of income, and that’s exactly what it did to an English man who reportedly managed to cash in about $300,000 (£180,000) from selling illegally copied games, films and music at computer fairs or over the internet – all of these costing the industry more than $1.5 Million. Before even considering [...]

Yesterday we brought you the news regarding the new Traffic Light rating system adopted by ELSPA, but things will not run as smoothly as anticipated: the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC in short), not one of the biggest fans of ELSPA (and vice versa) is now threatening to sue the latter over trademark and [...]

One would believe that everybody forgot about the Byron review about consumer’s lack of awareness of the PEGI rating system (among other things). It appears that ELSPA, the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association in the UK, kept analyzing it and found the solution to keep everybody happy: the “Traffic Light” rating system.

This rating system [...]

Before you start thinking about obscene words and sexy, luscious Bayonetta-like chicks, let me tell you that I’m talking about a different thing here: the latest UK charts and a top three “F”-games as bestsellers. Yes, for the first time in history (probably), the best selling three titles are sequels and they all begin with [...]