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.

Emsense, a San Francisco-based technology company, recently conducted a study linking players' emotional response to specific gameplay elements on several popular FPS titles.

Atari mentioned during the Atari Live event in London yesterday that second hand selling of video games has had a very negative impact on the games industry. "Very Painful," I think his exact words were. So what are they going to do about it? Find out in 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.

Here's a little game for fans of the immortal Dragon Ball Z series. Goku Scape v1 was created by developer adrian-SAYA and the object of the game is to help Goku dodge rocks. Don't let the simplicity fool you. It's eerily addictive.

Download: Goku Scape v1

Good news Resident Evil fans, Sony's moving up their North American release of Resident Evil: Degeneration! The movie will be will be released on UMD, DVD, and Blu-ray formats come December 27, 2008.

Version 3 of Art's Breakout clone, Powernoid is up and ready for download (my, that was fast... but that's to be expected of Art, I suppose). This update streamlines some of Powernoid's gameplay elements. Note the changelog in the full article.

Download: Powernoid v3
Visit: QJ.NET PSP development forums

SCi Entertainment has announced its intent to change its name to Eidos. To this end, they have already filed an application with the Registrar of Companies. SCi is the parent company of Tomb Raider and Hitman publisher, Eidos Interactive.

Summer Redstone, chairman of National Amusement, Inc and previously the owning investor of Midway Games, has sold his 87 percent controlling stake for US$ 100,000 or approximately US$ 0.0012 per share. More in the full article.

The rumor mill is abuzz over talks of someone making a grab for Eidos Interactive's parent company, SCi Entertainment. The big names mentioned were the US company, Electronic Arts, and the French company, Ubisoft.