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Lionsgate Studios and games developer Funtactix are launching The Hunger Games Adventures, a social gaming title which will open in concert with the film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins’ bestselling novel The Hunger Games in March, writes Steve Mullins.

Players of the game will be able to explore the world of Panem – the setting for The Hunger Games trilogy – and complete missions that will take them to each of the ‘Districts’ and the ‘Capitol’ where they will interact with characters from the story.

BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart is now visualising the top 10 best-selling singles in the Chart via the Radio 1 website for the first time, says Maria Stadtmueller. Listeners will be able to watch the final hour of The Official Chart every Sunday as Reggie Yates counts down the top 10 tracks.

Streaming specialist ipercast has joined forces with Invideous to help monetise the video apps maker’s hotspot advertising service which enables advertisers to activate product ads on existing footage.

Channel 4 Education is launching SuperMes, an online drama featuring virtual actors. The cast will improvise, taking direction from the production team, which will capture the action in the style of an observational documentary, where the action emerges from the ‘interplay of improvising artificial intelligences’.

If online search results are slowed by even a fraction of a second, people search less – a 400ms delay leads to a 0.44% drop in search volume. And impatience isn’t just limited to search, as four out of five online users will keeping on clicking away if a video stalls while loading.

Media discovery outfit Shazam is integrating Shazam for TV into a number of US shows, including Being Human on Syfy, E!’s The Soup and USA’s Psych.

Social media savvy brands should be taking an interest in Pinterest. What is it? Well, it’s a personal-use digital pinboard where users can pin images they find online in themed collections for sharing, writes Steve Mullins.

There are 22 million active players of the Sims Social game. And the game’s movers and shakers have shared more than 160 million gossips. Plus they’ve told 11 million dirty jokes. Most popular personality trait? Great Kisser. Bestselling female clothes item? Black dress. For men? Black hoodie. All this according to The Sims Social infographic from games publisher EA.