The music industry has spoken out about the five British developers and publishers going after illegal file-sharers in the UK. What of the other players in the gaming industry? We have yet to hear any official word on the matter from other developers or publishers, but Peter Moore - in his personal capacity - has talked about it, and he'd have to agree... with the music industry.

It was just revealed that gamers in UK who pre-ordered Electronic Arts' Spore (PC, Nintendo Wii, DS, Mac, and Mobile) from either GAME of Zawi will be getting a sweet bonus to help tide them over before the game is released. To find out more head on over to full article for more information.

Do you use your mobile phone for gaming? Do you like indoor sports? If the answer is yes to both questions, you'll be glad to know that mobile game publisher Player One has acquired the necessary license from the Professional Darts Corporation to launch a game titled PDC World Championship by the end of the year. Details after the jump.

Do you always find yourself wondering about what will mobiles look like in the future? Well, wonder no more. Nokia and the University of Cambridge in UK have launched their nanotechnology concept mobile device, the Morph. Find out more on this device after the jump!

Do you keep finding yourself doing nothing and wasting precious time at random intervals during work? If you live in the UK, then you may want to take a shot and check out Daily Downtime for the mobile. Promising to make your idle time productive with juicy stuff like puzzles, trivia, and the like, Daily Downtime won't make you feel useless during those hours. Read more and check out screenshots in the full article!

We found this new video over at YouTube claiming that UK publication Stuff Magazine has finally revealed the elusive PlayStation Portable Phone, a long-rumored collaboration between Sony's PlayStation department and Sony Ericsson.

The owner of the video mentioned that he was unable to read the contents of the article so what he did was just took a quick and short clip of the page. The video and a few reminders after the jump!

Looks like the most popular gadget in Europe this Christmas is the Wii if online searches are anything to judge by. According to the figures released by comScore Inc., the gadgets most frequently searched for in online engines in Europe during the first three weeks of November is the Nintendo Wii followed by the iPod. Next comes the DS lite, the PSP and the iPhone. More in the full article.

PopCap Games has announced that it just had launched Bookworm for mobile phones. For those who are unfamiliar with this game, it is a port of the popular PC title which received numerous awards including Puzzle Game of the Year from Games for Windows magazine.

The game is deceptively simple, yet very addicting. Players have to create words using tiles on a grid. Want to find out more about the game, head on over to the full article.

Here's a treat for gamers in the UK. Rumor has it that Eidos Interactive just got the rights to the BBC's highly popular EastEnders soap opera. Speculation goes that Eidos is planning to release the game as a casual title for either the DS or mobiles.

First, a game based on the BBC's Little Britan TV sketches, and now this. Visit the Full Article for the rest of the details for this particular rumor.

There are times you're behind the wheel and you need to send a quick text message, but you can't because for one, you're driving and two, it's illegal anyway. Now a partnership between Microsoft and Nuance, a voice recognition software firm, lets you send a text message safely while driving using speech-to-text technology.

The tech will be able to recognize verbal input from you and translate it into text, and conversely it can also read the messages that you receive. The tech can also be adapted to include email functions. It can also change the music you're playing by telling it a specific genre or music artist. It's sort of like an early version of the Enterprise computer.

The tech is called COMAND APS and is expected to arrive early next year in the UK, in the new line of Mercedes C-Class cars. Yes, and this kind of text messaging will most likely be legal.