GamesIndustry.biz Newsletter - 8th April 2010

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Today's top stories

Digital Economy bill passed by MPs

08:00 - Measures including anti-piracy legislation and the adoption of PEGI make it through wash-up

Licensed IPs can be "very fertile ground" for creativity

08:00 - Boundaries are necessary in order to be both creative and productive, says Starbreeze CEO

Kojima predicts no-console future

11:13 - Metal Gear creator imagines "games that don't depend on any platform"

Today's feature

Shooting Star

Starbreeze CEO Johan Kristiansson discusses project cancellation and the bright lights of Sweden's games industry

The rest of today's news

Nordic Game schedule live on GamesIndustry.biz

15:30 - Attendees to influential European event can now start planning time and arranging meetings online

Stimulus Package breaks Xbox Live records

09:22 - Modern Warfare 2 map pack sees 1 million downloads in 24 hours

Orange: 650,000 game downloads in 3 months

11:48 - Mobile phone operator releases statistics on game and social network usage

Charles Cecil on board for Doctor Who game

10:48 - BBC reveals free-to-play tie-in from Sumo Digital and Broken Sword veteran

New studio Runaway plans "meaningful" Facebook games

09:03 - New Zealand documentary film-making company establishes new social network developer

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Recent features

Kuju's Nigel Robbins

The company's new CEO talks business as he takes over from Ian Baverstock

Force India

Codies CEO Rod Cousens sheds more light on the Reliance deal, and explains why it's so important for the company

Critical Failure

The industry stresses that gaming isn't all about teenage boys any more. So why does the games media act like it still is?

Megaton's Cat Channon and Matt Yeo

On creating content for younger readers and why the industry needs dedicated kids media

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